A new academic adventure is taking place at Shoreham-Wading River High
School as 16 students in grades 9-12 are learning to apply a myriad of
STEM-based skills through their participation in the school’s newly
founded Robotics Team.
During the club’s initial meeting this November, team members helped to
unbox, organize and assess their competitive Vex robotic gear in
preparation for their first robotic building competition.
In the coming weeks, key STEM concepts will be put to the test as the
students explore the fundamentals of robotics and the engineering design
process, as well as practice teamwork, leadership and communication
skills. With the help of their coach and SWR technology teacher Nick
Vertucci, the team members will design and build their robots to compete
in a game-based engineering challenge and are using GitHub, a
development platform that allows them to host and review code.