LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) — Kalamazoo’s Stryke Force, the First Robotics World Champions got to see how Nascar racers are engineered at MIS earlier this month.
This week they went to Lansing but fortunately were spared from have to see how laws are made.
The Legislature is on summer break.
But the High School aged inventors and team builders got to look around, and have their picture taken with the Governor and local Lawmakers.
They won their title at the Competition in St. Louis this Spring.
Beginning next year, and for two years after that, Michigan will host the FIRST Robotics’ World Championships in Detroit. Teams from all over the Globe come to compete.
The competitions are expected to generate $90 million in economic impact.
More important, the international competition give tens of thousands of students invaluable experiences designing and working in teams to build robots that must be able to perform specific tasks, and compete with them.
