Community Partners, Engaging Problems, Student Solutions….Oh My!
Angela Forino is a 3rd Grade educator at Herbert Mills Elementary School in Reynoldsburg, OH and has a goal this year: get her students designing solutions for their community. And, she is accomplishing this goal everyday by reaching out to partners in the community to connect her students with.
She said she has had great success with designing cool projects and coming up with scenarios for her classroom, but this year she is finding a whole new level of success by having the community pose real problems to her 3rd graders and her students having a chance to propose real solutions!
“We’ve been great at Herbert Mills Elementary at coming up with projects, scenarios, and design challenges for our students, a personal goal of mine was to incorporate real problems into all of those ideas for my students,” said Forino.
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Dr. Annalies Corbin wins Carol V. Ruppe’ Distinguished Service Award
Congratulations to Dr. Annalies Corbin, President & CEO of the PAST Foundation for receiving her latest award the Carol V. Ruppe’ Distinguished Service Award. Annalies receives this award for her tireless volunteer efforts to support the missions of both The Society for Historical Archaeology and the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology, particularly for her exemplary service to the publications program of both organizations, and for her innovative efforts in public outreach and education.
The Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) established the prestigious Carol V. Rupee Distinguished Service Award to honor individuals who have a record of sustained and truly outstanding service to the Society. Kimberly L. Faulk, Ex Officio, ACUA and Amanda Evans, SHA Board of Directors presented Annalies with her award at the SHA banquets as family members, colleagues and friends watched.
“The Carol V. Ruppe’ Award holds a special place in my heart, as it related directly to my scientific expertise and my field of study. In my role as a transformational education leader, I believe it is important to tap into and encourage student passions to help them find their true calling. I am fortunate to be able to do just that with my creative and innovative team members at PAST,” said Corbin.
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First Annual Robotics STEAMWORKS Competition Kickoff Event Hosted by CORI, OSU & CORI
Last Saturday, The Center of Robotics Innovation (CORI) joined The Ohio State University and PAST to host a kickoff event for the FIRST Robotics Global Competition at the PAST Innovation Lab, located at 1003 Kinnear Road, at the mouth of Columbus’ emerging Kinnear Road Tech Corridor.
FIRST Robotics Competition is the ultimate Sport for the Mind, where imagination and innovation come together. Each year, teams of high school students and mentors work during a six-week period to build game-playing robots that weigh up to 120 pounds (54 kg). In its 26th year of competition, 3,128 teams with roughly 75,000 students and 19,000 mentors from 24 countries will build robots. FIRST is notoriously secretive about the details of each upcoming competition to help heighten the competitive nature. This kickoff event and many others across the nation,heard about the challenge for the first time, will be the first time any of the students from 19 Central Ohio high school robotics teams converged on the PAST Innovation Lab to discover what the FIRST Robotics STEAMWORKS challenge is for the 2017 competition season. Among those 19 schools with robotics teams two rookie schools will be attending the kickoff event – a first in Central Ohio – and OSU Engineering students were on hand to mentor and encourage the robotics teams as they learn what challenges lay ahead of them.
Filled to capacity, nearly 300 students attended the kickoff event. They watched a NASA livestream global broadcast of the robotics competition challenge parameters and students got a look at the new CORI world class robotics arena that has been constructed inside the PAST Innovation Lab. Students and teams got their FIRST Robotics kits that they will need to begin building their robots for the first scrimmage in March 2017.
All 19 teams will have six weeks to design and build their robots to compete in the upcoming CORI scrimmage at the PAST Innovation Lab robotics arena on February 18, 2017. Last year in the first CORI-sponsored robotics scrimmage, 10 Ohio teams participated at PAST Innovation Lab testing their robotic designs in a full competition scale arena. Of those 10 teams, six went on to regional semifinalists and three went to World Championship. Providing students access to a place to practice, compete and modify their robot chassis before competition has been a game-changer. The students and their coaches are excited about the upcoming challenges and opportunities.
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