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GM Engineers Support FIRST Robotics Students
Steve Rourke is Director of Engineering at the St. Catherine's Powertrain facility in Ontario, Canada. Steve also spends countless hours away from the job - with other team members and team mentors - helping local high-school students compete in an international robotics competition, FIRST. Steve sent us the following post describing how their team fared this year. - Will Stewart, blog editor
For me, inspiring young people to pursue careers in engineering, science, and technology has never been more fun, exciting, and rewarding.
It has been a five-year journey, led by the dedicated teachers and mentors of Simbotics to develop the people, the processes, and the passion to consistently field a top level high school robotics team that can compete with the best in the world. Winning 10 regional competitions in the past five years was capped this year with an exciting and dramatic championship victory by Simbotics in the Georgia Dome on April 19th in front of a crowd of 17,000 screaming enthusiasts.
In the 1,500-team annual competition, GM-mentored high school teams consistently come out on top each year.
And be sure to check out the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Web site for more information, or go here for competition videos and match results.
Posted by Editor on April 25, 2008 10:02 AM
