iRobot Launches New Robotics Education Website
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 10 of September , 2009 at 1:21 am
SPARK stands for Starter Programs for Advanced Robotics Knowledge, and it’s iRobot’s new program to help improve robotics education for students in elementary school through college. While not too much seems to be happening at the moment, SPARK does have a lot of promising partners, including FIRST, CMU, BeatBots, Topobo, and even Paro… There’s a lot of potential here, and of course we here at BotJunkie are wildly in favor of anything that makes robotics more accessible to students, especially younger students who may not even realize that robotics is something they can learn how to do.
All too often, programs like this don’t get past the concept+slick website phase, which as far as I can tell, is where SPARK currently is. But hopefully with the backing of iRobot and its partners, something substantial will become of this program. We’ll keep you posted.
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Comment by Erwin Sangalli
Made Sunday, 31 of October , 2010 at 4:13 pm
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