Today is “Familiarization” Day at WorldSkills 2015 in Brazil. Competitors will be attending preparation meetings and visiting their workplaces for orientation. For the first time ever in its 65 year history, the WorldSkills competition will be held in Latin America. There is sure to be excitement with over 1,000 competitors from 59 different countries competing. This the largest vocational education and skills competition in … Read More
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Distinguished Educator and STEM Program Designer, Tom White, has created a new STEM Lab Curriculum programs for fischertechnik. These are standards-based curriculum that involve problem solving, design and inquiry.
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The fischertechnik construction system is widely used in schools for teaching all sorts of STEM Education (i.e. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) concepts, from the principles of Dynamics and Statics, to the fundamentals of electronics, to how renewable energy is created and used. But one of the most prominent uses of fischertechnik is in the area of Mechatronics, aka Robotics and Programming.
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