CNR 2012: Exhibition: Bots High (USA)
Bots High follows three teams of high school robotics geeks who build and battle their way to a national robotics competition in Miami. Our heroes include genius inventor Will, who constructs seemingly indestructible bots that unfortunately self-destruct (sometimes in a cloud of smoke and flames), and My Mechanical Romance, a team of Catholic school girls who stand out amid male bot participants with a combination of beauty, brains, and fashion sense.
Math and Science Education in
America
The US is trailing the rest of the world in STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education. It's ranked 24th
in Math and 28th in Science.
There's also a huge gender gap. While boys and girls are equally
prepared to pursue engineering fields when graduating high school,
only 16% of engineering students are female. 10% of professional
engineers are women.
Bots High highlights a fantastic solution to this education
problem by engaging students in science and engineering through
robotics. Furthermore, most of the teams featured in the film are
all-girls teams, proving that there doesn't need to be a gender gap
and inspring those that watch the film.
Links:
Joey
Daoud
Bots
High
[image source: Coffee and Celluloid]
[source: Vive Les Robots!]
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Joey Daoud is the Director of the documentary Bots High (2011).
Bots High
The American documentary by Joey Daoud will be shown several
times with Czech subtitles at the exhibition during the Cafe Neu
Romance festival (27.-29. of November 2012 from 9:30am - 1pm each
day) at the Galerie NTK.
Galerie NTK
Technická 6
16080 Prague.