Rockin' Robots with the Science and Technology Committee
Dublin A.M. Rotary's Science and Technology Committee helps sponsor the Dublin High School Robotics team, the "Bad Robots." We also help sponsor and promote a Dublin Lego Robot League in the Dublin middle schools and a Jr. Lego League in the elementary schools to help promote awareness, interest, and excitement in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields. We’ve expanded this program to a new non-profit organization called CORI (Central Ohio Robotics Initiative) to help promote Robotics in all the central Ohio school systems. There are now about 20 teams in Central Ohio and CORI organizes an off-season competition for those teams every June. The event was most recently held at Dublin Coffman High School.
We are now also helping sponsor a Mini Maker’s Faire program, which is designed to help bring together families and individuals to celebrate the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset and showcase all kinds of incredible projects. At a typical Maker Faire, you'll find arts and crafts, science and engineering, food and music, and fire and water, but what makes this event special is that all these interesting projects and smart, creative people belong together. It is a show-and-tell format for people of all ages that brings out the "kid" in all of us. Maker Faire is a community-based learning event that inspires everyone to become a maker and connect to people and projects in their local community.
Our Rotary Science and Technology committee works hard to help students and other members of the community get excited about science and technology, which helps our community provide talented new engineers and scientists to area businesses. It's an effort that helps Dublin, Ohio, our country, and the world realize Rotary's mission of education, peace, and shared prosperity. If you’d like to be involved in this effort, even just to volunteer for a day, please contact Ann Ralston or Wolf Lant for more information!