Robotics club at Walzem Elementary sparks engineering interest among students

Robotics club at Walzem Elementary sparks engineering interest among students

Walzem Elementary teacher Sarah Marquez started the afterschool robotics team as a way to help challenge some of the smartest kids on campus. The Robo Colts team meets once a week from August to January to design and build a moving robot. “The kids have to write all of those steps and the coding instructions, and then they have to do a digital notebook as well, which is a log of everything we’ve done throughout the year,” Marquez said.It takes p…