For Press Release:
National 4-H Council awarded a $2,500 grant to the Huntington County 4-H robotics team. This funding will support the team as they work together throughout the year to learn how to build robots and participate in robotics competitions across the country.
To support 4-H’s expanded robotics programming, and in anticipation of the upcoming 2010 launch of 4-H’s comprehensive robotics curriculum, National 4-H Council raised grants that were awarded to forty-three 4-H Robotics Teams in twenty states nation-wide. These 4-H teams will participate in at least one FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), or FIRST LEGO League (FLL) event.
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) and National 4-H Council formed an alliance earlier this year to expand robotics clubs and programming among new youth across the nation. Through these grants, twenty-seven of the forty-three grants awarded are helping to establish brand new 4-H Robotics Teams in several states.
Huntington County 4-H Robotics Team #1501 will participate in the FIRST Kick-off event on Saturday, January 9, 2010, held locally at Huntington University Science Building. 4-H members and adult mentors will begin the planning and design stages for building this year’s robot to compete in the Boilermaker Regional, scheduled at Purdue University March 18-20.
About 4-H:
4-H is a community of six million young people across America learning leadership, citizenship, and life skills. National 4-H Council is the private sector, non-profit partner of National 4-H Headquarters (USDA). The 4-H programs are implemented by the 106 Land Grant Universities and the Cooperative Extension System through their 3,100 local Extension offices across the country. Learn more about 4-H at www.4-h.org
