TechBrick.com
Title
TechBrick Portal: Welcome to TechBrick First Lego League and First Tech Challenge Teams
Description
Excerpted from the website description:
- Welcome to the Web Site of the New Covenant Christian Academy Home School First Lego League and First Tech Challenge Robotics Club, Abingdon, Maryland
Languages
English
Additional Information
TechBrick is a robotics club formed for home school students in Harford and Baltimore County. After five years we have more than 100 active registrations with a monthly attendance of 25-40 children. This year we will have four competition teams that meet weekly with 30 children and 5 adult coaches. We have numerous participants in math, science, and engineering tracks while in high school or early college attendance.
Why this program is critical to your company’s future. The club runs under a program called FIRST, founded 14 years ago by Dean Kamen (of Segway Scooter fame). His goal was to create a program in which young students with a strong interest in technology and engineering could get the same type of encouragement that students get in organized sports.
The Program Has National Support and Value Dean Kamen has achieved his goal. FIRST now has more than 200,000 global participants with programs serving children ages 7-18. More than one hundred colleges offer scholarships to students who have participated in a FIRST program. Many of the participants who started at the beginning are now employed by these corporations.
The FIRST program and competitions provide one of the best, if not the best, platform for young people to get excited about the challenges and rewards of engineering. They are pushed to the limit on every level: project management, design, research, testing, strategic planning, and more. I expect to look back four or five years from now and see many of our early participants in the workplace providing the innovative solutions we need to maintain our competitive edge.
Visit our website to learn more about this exciting program.
