{"id":794525,"date":"2019-04-04T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/summit-school-district-hosts-first-robotics-competition\/"},"modified":"2019-04-04T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T23:04:00","slug":"summit-school-district-hosts-first-robotics-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-school-district-hosts-first-robotics-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit School District hosts first robotics competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.56038647343\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-364039-249\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Robotics-SDN-040419-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Robotics-SDN-040419-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com | Summit Middle School students navigate the remote controlled robots with placing the orange hubs Wednesday, April 3, inside the school in Frisco.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"7.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Robotics-SDN-040419-2.jpg\" alt=\"Summit Middle School students navigate the remote controlled robots with placing the orange hubs Wednesday, April 3, inside the school in Frisco.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>Summit Middle School students navigate the remote controlled robots with placing the orange hubs Wednesday, April 3, inside the school in Frisco.<\/strong><br \/>Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Robotics-SDN-040419-2-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Robotics-SDN-040419-2-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com | Summit Middle School students navigate the remote controlled robots with placing the orange hubs Wednesday, April 3, inside the school in Frisco.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"7.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Robotics-SDN-040419-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Summit Middle School students navigate the remote controlled robots with placing the orange hubs Wednesday, April 3, inside the school in Frisco.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>Summit Middle School students navigate the remote controlled robots with placing the orange hubs Wednesday, April 3, inside the school in Frisco.<\/strong><br \/>Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Robotics-SDN-040419-2-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Robotics-SDN-040419-2-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Robotics-SDN-040419-2-2 |\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Robotics-SDN-040419-2-2.jpg\" alt><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>Robotics-SDN-040419-2-2<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/summit-school-district-hosts-first-robotics-competition\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/summit-school-district-hosts-first-robotics-competition\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Summit School District students are taking big steps into the future. The district recently introduced robotics as a course offering at the middle school and most elementary schools, and on Wednesday hosted its first robotics competition for students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Robotics was introduced as part of the district\u2019s Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) program this year. The offering is seen as a great way to get kids engaged in a fun activity while getting a serious education on what may very well be one of America\u2019s biggest industries in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">On Wednesday, in association with Vex Robotics, the district hosted the first scrimmage in the High Country between robotics teams from four of Summit\u2019s elementary schools (Breckenridge and Silverthorne elementary schools are expected to field teams next year) and Summit Middle School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In the scrimmage, teams used robots that they programmed and built themselves to lift and deposit objects around a playing field, scoring points when they place objects in score boxes, with additional points if they manage to get their robots to park properly at the end of the round. Bonus points were given if students managed to stack the objects on top of each other or get the robots to use their claw to lift themselves up and hang on parallel bars above the field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Peder Hanson, the STEM coordinator for Summit schools, said that the district was not expecting to host a scrimmage this year, as it usually takes time to get students and teachers trained in how to build and use the robots in competition. As it turns out, the sheer excitement and enthusiasm for the program sped things up quite a bit. \u201cThe kids are super excited, we didn\u2019t expect to get a scrimmage started so soon,\u201d Hanson said. \u201cWe\u2019ve already had kids who have been invited to state competitions. The teachers are super excited, and when they\u2019re excited the students are excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Hanson said that robotics was a very good way to teach STEM principles to students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cRobotics has a lot of things ingrained into it, especially in competition,\u201d Hanson said. \u201cKids are learning teamwork, coding, math, programming, problem solving; all of them are essential skills in the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Fifth grader Tobias Wineland was among the competitors on Wednesday. Wineland, who was the primary driver for his team, said robotics seemed like a natural fit for his skillset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI got into robotics because I\u2019m really good at driving, and good at learning technology and building things,\u201d Wineland said. \u201cI\u2019m learning how to connect motors and stuff. It\u2019s very fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Brenna Gardner, a parent of fifth grader Grace, who was far too absorbed in the competition to speak to the Summit Daily, said her daughter was very enthusiastic about the competition, especially because she was able to use science and technology skills in the real world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI think STEM programming is of utmost importance in the education realm,\u201d Gardner said. \u201cTechnology is moving so fast, and we need to make sure kids are current on what\u2019s going on. She\u2019s been coding since kindergarten, and she hasn\u2019t been able to really use those skills in the real world until now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Given the great initial reaction to robotics, Hanson anticipated that the subject will become very popular across the High Country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThanks to our awesome coaches and programming people, we are rolling forward with this, and it is going to just get bigger,\u201d Hanson said. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about getting other districts involved and setting up a mountain region competition. It is great to be able to provide that programming in rural Colorado communities like ours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/summit-school-district-hosts-first-robotics-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summit Middle School students navigate the remote controlled robots with placing the orange hubs Wednesday, April 3, inside the school in Frisco.Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com Summit Middle School students navigate the remote controlled robots with placing the orange hubs Wednesday, April 3, inside the school in Frisco.Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com Robotics-SDN-040419-2-2 Show CaptionsHide Captions Summit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 09:02:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}