Grades 9 - 12 ; 2 Periods a week for one full school year.)

The course is designed to provide students with a hands-on approach to Robotics.

We will approach robotics by land , sea and air..... Each trimester the class will build a new robot .  The first robot will be operated by an NXT controller programec using y the Robot C language.  The class will also build the technoball playing field for the 8th grade Industrial Technology classes to have their robots compete on.  The class will also build and opperate an underwater robot.    Each student will be trained to operate the Shop Bot CNC router. We will also get to opperate and control hobby  Helicopters and learn about Droids. Instruction includes history, mechanics, electronics, industrial robot arm design, Robot C programming of NXT , underwater ROV's and Droids.  

This course fulfills the 1/3 additional unit of the Arts requirement.