The Tri-Rivers RAMTEC Vex Robotics League has earned a Honda North America grant for $25,000 to increase student interest in becoming future manufacturing and engineering technicians, according to Ritch Ramey, RAMTEC Coordinator The grant, written by Ramey, will help Central Ohio schools expand their engineering technology awareness and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) curriculum. […]
Marion Workshop Offers Intro to Arduino Controller
SparkFun is teaming up with TRECA and the National Robotics Challenge, hosted annually in Marion, to provide a two-day professional development session based on the Arduino controller and its companion environment Processing. In these two days, instructors will cover the basics of Arduino and the circuits that can support data logging instrumentation, robotics and a […]
Marion Vex Robotics Competition to Draw 80 Schools
More than 80 high school and middle school teams, nearly double the amount from last year, are expected to participate in the 5th Annual SME-EF Marion Area Vex Qualifier March 1, 2013 in the Alber Student Center, located on the Marion Technical College/Ohio State University Marion campus at 1467 Mount Vernon Avenue. “Five years ago […]