summerreading Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 DS is participating in a VEX robotics club this year. Classes are 2.5 hours a week, for 6 months. I don't think there will be homework, but he does have to attend a competition day to observe. They are building and learning to program RobotC. Is that enough for a credit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCB Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 My dd is in a FIRST robotics club. She does 4.5 - 5 hours almost every week and much more when we are getting close to competitions. However I want to have this as an extra-curricular for her so I can't count it for credit as well. It sounds like you might have almost enough hours for a half credit - you may need to add a few things to fill it out - but you might want to consider of you want it to be an extra-curricular activity to put on his resume instead. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
summerreading Posted September 14, 2017 Author Share Posted September 14, 2017 My dd is in a FIRST robotics club. She does 4.5 - 5 hours almost every week and much more when we are getting close to competitions. However I want to have this as an extra-curricular for her so I can't count it for credit as well. It sounds like you might have almost enough hours for a half credit - you may need to add a few things to fill it out - but you might want to consider of you want it to be an extra-curricular activity to put on his resume instead. ok extra-curricular vs credit. I have something new to look into. Thanks 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 If he is not really interested in robotics, I would make it a class. If he is (and I suspect this is the case), I would make it an extracurricular. So, with my son, who is a STEM guy, I made his sailing camps into a PE credit and his viola lessons into an arts credit. But all of his outside robotics/engineering/science stuff, with the exception of a robotics class taken at the private high school he attended for a bit, was counted as an extracurricular. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoVanGogh Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 I am using our robotics club activities as an elective credit and not an extracurricular. DS has enough extracurricular (I think) and he is much more interested in programming than robotics. I may change it at the end, but that is where I have it now. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
summerreading Posted September 14, 2017 Author Share Posted September 14, 2017 If he is not really interested in robotics, I would make it a class. If he is (and I suspect this is the case), I would make it an extracurricular. So, with my son, who is a STEM guy, I made his sailing camps into a PE credit and his viola lessons into an arts credit. But all of his outside robotics/engineering/science stuff, with the exception of a robotics class taken at the private high school he attended for a bit, was counted as an extracurricular. So I guess my thinking on this was backward. He says he wants to be a robotics engineer, so I was thinking that it would be a good thing for robotics to show up on his transcript as a class. I guess the benefit of not making it a class is to show he is doing those things anyway and has high interest? Or what is the logic here? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopmom Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 (edited) My ds is on an FTC team, thousands of hours over 4 years of high school. In 9th, I included robotics as part of a full year one credit elective, something like Intro to Engineering & Robotics, I'm blanking on the name right now. But he did some robotics classes, some robotics specific programming classes, used the Great Courses Engineering and robotics courses,and completed an Intro to Engineering textbook- in addition to being on the team. But for everything else robotics, it's all just listed as extracurricular- his main ones (he does FTC, & an underwater robot group, & his big science fair project was a robot, and...). Yes, robots & programming took over all his "free" hours and then some ;) If your kiddo continues his robotics, he could take a college robotics class in 11/12 and list that on his transcript. (Although we have not found any that are not way below ds's abilities- he could teach them) But a robotics team over a long time I'd use as an extracurricular. STEM schools know how much work the teams are. Eta- just in case you're interested, I think I still have the Great Courses Robotics set in my for sale bin. No pressure at all though. Edited September 14, 2017 by Hilltopmom 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
summerreading Posted September 14, 2017 Author Share Posted September 14, 2017 My ds is on an FTC team, thousands of hours over 4 years of high school. In 9th, I included robotics as part of a full year one credit elective, something like Intro to Engineering & Robotics, I'm blanking on the name right now. But he did some robotics classes, some robotics specific programming classes, used the Great Courses Engineering and robotics courses,and completed an Intro to Engineering textbook- in addition to being on the team. But for everything else robotics, it's all just listed as extracurricular- his main ones (he does FTC, & an underwater robot group, & his big science fair project was a robot, and...). Yes, robots & programming took over all his "free" hours and then some ;) If your kiddo continues his robotics, he could take a college robotics class in 11/12 and list that on his transcript. (Although we have not found any that are not way below ds's abilities- he could teach them) But a robotics team over a long time I'd use as an extracurricular. STEM schools know how much work the teams are. Eta- just in case you're interested, I think I still have the Great Courses Robotics set in my for sale bin. No pressure at all though. This is a great idea! I was hoping to add Intro to Engineering using a textbook as a half credit, but I like your way better. Thanks for the lead on the Great Courses, I'll look into it. He was so excited by his first session and was like, "How do I make every day Vex Club?" A local library is doing First this year. Do you think 2 clubs is overkill? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 So I guess my thinking on this was backward. He says he wants to be a robotics engineer, so I was thinking that it would be a good thing for robotics to show up on his transcript as a class. I guess the benefit of not making it a class is to show he is doing those things anyway and has high interest? Or what is the logic here? Thanks! Yes, that's the logic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopmom Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 This is a great idea! I was hoping to add Intro to Engineering using a textbook as a half credit, but I like your way better. Thanks for the lead on the Great Courses, I'll look into it. He was so excited by his first session and was like, "How do I make every day Vex Club?" A local library is doing First this year. Do you think 2 clubs is overkill? Lol, everyday IS robotics here. Pretty much. How heavy is his course load? Do they meet on set days? We rotate based on the kids & coach work schedules. He could try both & choose which to continue with as he ages. Some are better than others, like any volunteer led activity. During peak season though close to competition time, we're meeting daily, for hours. If both teams compete around the same time of year, they'd interfere with each other. We always planned light curriculum during the final month of robotics season. Can't do that anymore with DE classes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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