Belleville High School is promoting a new club called Unified Robotics to bring students and students with disabilities together, to learn and use their knowledge in STEM-based challenges and competitions.
October 4 to November 22 during the sixth hour on Fridays, the Robotics team, students taking the Peer to Peer course, and whoever likes to join and students with disabilities come together to compete in the 2024-2025 FIRST Lego-based games at Belleville High School. They are working to compete at Northville High School on November 23.
These organizations were brought together by teachers Ms. Sprauge and Mrs. Testorelli, and robotics mentor and teacher Mr. Watkins.
When asking Mr. Watkins how Unified Robotics started up at Belleville he said, “We started Unified Robotics by attending a meeting at the world competition in Huston. We got information on how to start, it was just starting to spread around the world. We decided to start a team and went through the steps to start a team.”
According to Mr. Watkins, there are 30 students, and six teams at Belleville that are participating in the club. He hopes that next year there will be more students interested.
Unified Robotics started in 2015 and has spread worldwide ever since. According to the Unified Robotics Organization, only five schools in Michigan have teams: Lake Orion High School, Madison Elementary, Mason Middle School, Novi High School, and now Belleville High School. According to Unified Robotics.Org, only 36 schools in the world have teams.
Expanding and finding more ways to show and share the experiences that these students are having and expanding Unified Robotics into the middle school for next year according to Mr. Watkins, is the goal for Unified Robotics.
B. Robinson • Oct 25, 2024 at 10:45 am
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