Robotics Programs Offer Missing Element to Science Education

Earlier this month, there was a great blog post over at Physicsworld.com, "The power of robotics," in which Robert P. Crease (philosophy professor at Stony Brook University) discusses his son's participation in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a major robotics competition charity founded by inventor Dean Kamen. The article discusses not only his son's personal experiences, but also the fact that the hands-on element of the robotics design is a crucial component of science education which is being largely ignored by our national science curriculum.

I previously discussed the benefits of FIRST back in April, around the time of their national competition in Atlanta, Georgia.

For more about actually creating robots, check out the "Robotics and Robots" section of About.com Inventors...