Calcasieu Parish Middle School Robotics Competition
Zhuang Li, Daniel LeJeune · ScholarWorks @ The University of New Orleans (The University of New Orleans) · 2012
Collaborating with the Calcasieu Parish School Board, the first robotics competition was successfully held at McNeese State University on February 25, 2012. Structured as a service-learning project for McNeese students in Spring 2011, McNeese engineering students coached 14 teams from 13 area middle schools in this newly created robotics competition. The PI communicated with the school sponsors regularly and visited all the schools at least once. The ultimate goal was to instill an understanding and appreciation of sciences and engineering. We believe our first efforts were successful as there is interest to hold this competition on an annual basis.