Social Studies Component:
Our SS component is about how Robotics has affected society in our modern world. We chose this component through our experience in Robotics and we have realized and experienced its effect on society and within our community. For one, it has helped us bring the community and our team together by requiring teamwork in order to succeed and accomplish a set of tasks. Students can come together to create teams and work together to build and control robots that complete and go through a set of missions to earn them points. This exploration in building and manipulating tools and concepts to come up with a functioning design has improved and assisted in technological advancements throughout the years. Teams also come together in order to help each other, fueling the competition even further. Robotics not only helps in technological advancements, but creates better collaboration skills within a group of people as it pushes them to work with other people that may have different views and perspectives from them. This helps to educate children for their future by teaching several skills which will be helpful in the future. For those in the STEM pathway, it teaches students engineering and even how to code. Robotics has had a lasting and fulfilling impact on our modern, developing society in various ways.