This morning, I attended the US FIRST Robotics Regional Competition opening ceremonies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Inside Harrington Auditorium, you could feel the energy and excitement of the students, their engineering mentors and everyone else involved in the competition. Over the course of the next few days, 29 high school teams from across New England will compete for a chance to advance to the World Championships at the Georgia Dome in April.
This event truly showcases our future scientists, engineers and business leaders and makes me believe that our investment into STEM education is paying off with these students being able to work side by side with professional engineers designing and building robots all while learning to use sophisticated hardware and software.
If you have time, I encourage you to come down to WPI and check out all the hard work that these students have put in and their amazing results. Good luck to all the teams!
