Don1 - Congrats to JC Robotics once more!

[Islandman]

Well done JC!

The Jamaica College Robotics team just won the Motivate Award in Pennsylvania at Super regionals and will be going to World Championship in April .

[Don1]

Well done JC!

Yep...stunning actually. Give tanks boss. I couldn't go to the competition @ Scranton U but was watching it streamed online...rather than watching Champs

The outcomes of this project are wayyy beyond my expectations when the idea was germinated then executed in the summer of 2009. The main disappointment is the lack of take-up by other schools

Wi tings Tech Applications-focused, World quality-benchmarked.....and 21st Century-ready. Pointing out the optimal path for the nation

May he who hath sense learn the appropriate (development) lessons

[Islandman]

Yes it has been great to see the sustained high performance by the program and the attention it has received.

I too am disappointed about the failure to really launch at other schools, particularly because I KNOW the interest is there and funds is not much of a factor. Just this past week I was doing a talk at Morant Bay about careers in technology and the students had more questions than I had time to answer. The critical thing with any extra curricular program as you know is the support on the ground has to be there. I have not given up totally but plan to take a different approach next academic year and see if that will have a better chance of succeeding.

JCs continued success is very inspiring though.

[Don1]

Yes it has been great to see the sustained high performance by the program and the attention it has received.

I too am disappointed about the failure to really launch at other schools, particularly because I KNOW the interest is there and funds is not much of a factor. Just this past week I was doing a talk at Morant Bay about careers in technology and the students had more questions than I had time to answer. The critical thing with any extra curricular program as you know is the support on the ground has to be there. I have not given up totally but plan to take a different approach next academic year and see if that will have a better chance of succeeding.

JCs continued success is very inspiring though.

Miseeit mi boss...

Like any new project it's not easy to raise it off the ground...Fortunately we had ALL the moving parts receptive & working in sync virtually from Day 1...Foreign & Yard. I guess the timing & personnel were just perfect all around

Press along until your timing works with the right people on the ground in JA ..then it'll fall into place. A local competition is critical though

[Karl]

Big up, JC!
Big up, Don1!

[Willi]

Sweet!

[Don1]

Blessings Faada

[Don1]

yuhseeit

[Time]

Big up JC.

[Karl]

Presently, how many schools are involved in/have such a program?

...and why is it considered extra-curricula and not a part of the intra-curricula activities?

If not main stream as per academic curriculum, why not co-curricula activity?

Seems to me important avenue for graduates finding employment in allied fields and critically 'good paying jobs'? ...eeeennnnnhhhh - part to upward social mobility? Right?

[Rockman]

Well dine JC!!!

[Don1]

Karl;553504]Presently, how many schools are involved in/have such a program?

In Jamaica?? 1 There is 1 dedicated robotics lab in Jamaica...including tertiary institutions
But there is a workshop type program for younger yutes run by another guy that impacts the primary level...plus I'man & Crew @ Digital Yard run workshops

...and why is it considered extra-curricula and not a part of the intra-curricula activities?

If not main stream as per academic curriculum, why not co-curricula activity?

@ JC robotics is co-curricular. Thee is an attempt (un-programmed) to integrate the discipline from 1st form. However we enter the US competition via an independent Robotics Club

Seems to me important avenue for graduates finding employment in allied fields and critically 'good paying jobs'? ...eeeennnnnhhhh - part to upward social mobility? Right?

It COULD eventually be a viable path to that....but that goal needs a bigger national, integrated program

The immediate goal is to create a culture of excitement & appreciation for science & technology....and grow critical skills in STEM.e.g. software programming, CAD, electronic engineering, construction management & documentation, critical thinking etc etc etc

[Don1]

How to engineer a New Generation of Boys

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/n...robotics-title

Gavin Smith, who is both captain of the robotics team and JC's school captain, told Dr Claudette Cooke, JBG vice president, human resource department and public relations, about the challenge of balancing his various roles while maintaining good grades.

The gentlemen made a detailed presentation of their now further refined, Super Robot, and offered to have Dr Cooke give it a test drive.

There were smiles and laughter as Shumba Brown, the team's chief programmer, smiled charmingly while requesting the JBG vice-president's licence and registration before handing over the robot's controls.

Dr Cooke told the group, "It's not often that we sit among a group of young people like you, who, from the get-go, seem so impressive, and hearing you speak solidifies that.

At the Jamaica Broilers Group, education is very close to our hearts, and we hear so much about how well girls are getting on, I believe that there is a lot happening with our young men in this country that goes unnoticed.

"I am very excited when I look at the youth here; the freshness, the stage in life that you are at and the promise for the future."

[Willi]

My 13 year old is doing a Saturday robotics course given by the EPFL university for Young girls only!

Everybody catching the bug...

[Don1]

My 13 year old is doing a Saturday robotics course given by the EPFL university for Young girls only!

Everybody catching the bug...

Noice!

Eida wi catch di bug or di bug agguh sting wi