The start of the new school year means the start of any number of excellent programs to engage students in lively science enrichment opportunities. I plan to post several of these worthwhile programs in the coming days, and Steve Goodgame, the new executive director of the Kiss Institute for Practical Robotics recently sent out a reminder that Botball makes a return this year.
As with many of the programs to be highlighted on this page, Botball is aligned to Oklahoma’s Priority Academic Student Skills and participation can help improve student performance on process skill and inquiry based standardized testing.
Steve invites us all to visit the Botball web site and give them a call so as to discuss the possibility of participating in the program as an enrichment activity or as an extracurricular program. You can visit their web site (www.botball.org) to get more information. They are offering competitive scholarships (generously funded by NASA) to help defray the cost of participation.
Do you involve students in extracurricular and/or enrichment programs such as Botball, Science Fair, Oklahoma Junior Academy of Science or Science Olympiad? If so, what is your most memorable experience? Do you have a story to share? If you don’t participate in such programs, why not? What needs to occur for you to initiate such an experience for your students? Give us some feedback. You can comment to this posting (and any other posting on this site) by simply registering over in the Meta section to the left. Once registered and logged in, you will gain access to your own dashboard to this website where you can post a comment or share an idea. This is the part of the new OSTA site that makes it interactive.