Taft Robotics Workshop - 3rd Visit Post

For my PACT project, I decided to work in the Taft Tuesday math workshops with Lauren Yang, where we started teaching lego robotics. We spend the first 15-30 minutes helping the 5th grade students with their math homework and then after they are done, we teach them about building and programming in lego robotics. Before we started teaching the robotics, I was worried that the students might not be interested in learning the subject, especially since it's so new, but I was surprised to find that after the first meeting, the students were very motivated to complete their math homework as soon as possible so that they could work on their robots. I was also unsure of how much these students were going to understand of what we were teaching because some of the topics can be difficult, but many of the students were very intelligent and intuitive in building their robots and were able to quickly grasp the material. I have always taken for granted my ability to pursue robotics, but teaching these workshops opened my eyes to the fact that there are many students who don’t have the opportunity to do so. There were many students that were very interested in the subject and expressed interest in continuing in the future. Every meeting the students would ask us if we were coming back next week and continuously asserted their enthusiasm. I am excited to continue working with the students in the future.