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| Southern ME Gearbot participants |
“The Kick-off meeting shows program growth with St Brigid
School in Portland, and Wiscasset Robotics club joining us,” stated Edmund
Ashley, board member of Southern Maine Gearbots. “We now range from Acton to
Naples and up the coast to Wiscasset.”
During the winter and fall semesters, many students in
the RSU14 school district have had fun and success participating in past
competitions that include a junior league (kindergarten through third grade)
and a senior league (third through eighth grade).
As the website states, the purpose of Southern Maine
Gearbots is to capture the students’ curiosity and direct it toward discovering
the possibilities of improving the world around them.
The program features a real-world challenge to be solved
by research, critical thinking and imagination. Guided by adult coaches,
students work with LEGO elements and moving parts to build
ideas and concepts and present them for review.
ideas and concepts and present them for review.
The registration season is open now and early
registration will run through mid-November. For more information on the
registration process contact Ashley at info@smgearbots.org
or go to the website at www.smgearbots.org.
Southern Maine Gearbots also has a number of open positions
on its board. And board members are encouraging interested parents to contact
the organization to discover how to be a part of this growing STEM enrichment program.
Additionally, anyone interested in being a coach or creating
a new team in a surrounding town should contact members of the board at info@smgearbots.org.
A coach introduction meeting and training is planned for mid-December and the
season will officially kick-off the week of January 8.
“We look forward to serving kids in the Southern Maine
Region in our STEM based Lego Robotics Programs for some years to come,” Ashley
said.
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