The College of Southern Maryland (CSM) hosted 35 teams of local and regional middle- and high-school students last weekend at the Southern Maryland VEX V5 Robotics Tournament held at the La Plata Campus. At the Feb. 15 tournament, student-team-built robots were inspected, put to the test, judged, and awarded for their high-tech efforts. “I know I am looking at our region’s best and brightest,” CSM President Dr. Yolanda Wilson shared as she welcomed the tournament’s participants Saturday. “I have no doubt that we are going to see an enormous amount of innovation, critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration today and we encourage you to have fun while you engage in friendly competition. “Just remember, each of you are the STEM and STEAM leaders of tomorrow and I am confident that our future is incredibly bright with you charting the path forward,” she continued. The VEX V5 Robotics Tournament, presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, is the largest and fastest growing middle school and high school robotics program globally with more than 20,000 teams from 50 countries playing in over 1,700 competitions worldwide. Each year, an engineering challenge is presented in the form of a game. The foundation’s global mission […]
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