Girls Get IT Recruitment Presentation By Marian Hesse - SWD

Join Girls Get IT Women and girls continue to be underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math in both education and employment. Participate in the After school all Girls Technology club. Come experience Lego Robots.

Objectives To increase the interest of young women in math, science and Technology through positive, hands-on experiences. To involve young women in positive experiences in math, science and Technology through Robot competition.

Robotics Competition ASIMORoboCup Robot Drummer at Tech

Robotic competitions RoboCup Junior - promotes project oriented, team-based education. Designing, building and programming robots. Several challenges have been developed –Soccer –Rescue Robots –Dance

RoboCup Junior To be Held At Georgia Tech July 2-8 th 2007 –For middle and high school students Primary level if oldest is 14 or younger Secondary level if youngest is 14 or older and <= 19 3 events –Dance –Soccer –Rescue We would like You to join and compete –It is an international competition (about 200 teams total)

RoboCup Junior Advantages Focused more on education and sharing than competition The challenges are the same from year to year to encourage teams to develop more sophisticated solutions Autonomous robots, not remote controlled Located with RoboCup so kids get to see professionals in the field Students do the work, not the mentor or professionals –Checked by an interview (teams have been disqualified) Much cheaper than many other competitions

Get Involved Come have fun with us while you learn Design, build and program robots Find out if your robot will behave as it should Come experience the challenge For more info see Mrs. Hesse – IT lab or come to room 6354

Thank you!