Bring Light: Robotics Program 2008

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Robotics Program 2008

Third Street Community Center

The Robotics Program is an intensive 4-month curriculum for 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th grade students. Our program teaches project management, team building and leadership skills while engaging students in basic to intermediate level engineering, physics, internet research, and other technology related activities.

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Third Street Community Center

The Third Street Community Center is a place where people of all ages and backgrounds are actively engaged in enriching themselves and their community through education, arts, technology and service.

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Based in: San Jose, California

Year founded: 1997

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Project Info

The Robotics Program offers a continuum of educational services for youth that includes a participatory group process where youth provide input and feedback into a design of a device by working with mentors. Our volunteer mentors serve as positive role models and support our youth throughout the program. Youth learn to develop their leadership style, learn project & time management skills, and public speaking & presentation skills.

Youth also gain a sense of what it takes to develop an effective team as they enter the Tech Challenge, an annual robotics competition held at the prestigious Tech Museum of Innovation. Each student team is assigned a Tech Challenge Mentor, an engineer working in the high tech industry or an engineering student, to support and guide their team. This program inspires students to be creative, innovative, and to find solutions to challenges through critical analysis. By bringing volunteers from our community as partners in education, the Third Street Community Center provides an energetic and highly competitive learning experience for youth. Many of our students return for multiple years.

Services are provided on Saturdays for 3 hours and for 6 hours each Saturday in April as students prepare for the Robotics competition.