VEX IQ Robotics
Module Type: Hands-on
Focus: Engineering, STEM (covers elements across science, technology, engineering, math), Technology
Summary: Participants will have a hands-on opportunity to build one of several VEX IQ robots and then will run the robot through a series of challenges. The VEX competition series will be introduced for elementary and middle schools. We will also take a look at the free program used to run the robots autonomously using ModKit.
Room: 204
Tags: Physics, Other: Computer Science, Geometry, Logic,
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Biography:
Kim is beginning twenty years with the Mobile County Public School System. She has taught grades kindergarten through Second Grade. She was introduced to SECME in 2003 when she served as the K-2 Coordinator for her school. In 2009 she became the school's SECME Coordinator for K-5. O'Rourke Elementary has two after school SECME programs with almost 100 students from grades 3-5. One program consists of various engineering design challenges. The other program is a VEX IQ robotics team of 30 fourth and fifth grade students. She has been an AMSTI teacher for sixteen years. She is the school's Archery Coach.
Kim earned her Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Education from the University of South Alabama. She was SECMEtized at her first Summer Institute in 2009 at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. SECME has inspired her so much, that she has returned to South Alabama to earn her Master's Degree. Her SECME programs and classroom encourages students to never give up, and to be a solution to the world's problems. She hopes to inspire children to truly make a difference. She has done this in the life of her 21 year-old son who earned the rank of Eagle Scout before joining the Alabama Army National Guard at 17. She has been happily married for twelve years and now loves spending every possible minute with her beautiful granddaughter, Destiny.
