Sunday, January 27, 2013

Robotics on a roll in Minnesota schools

<p>An explosion in the popularity of high school robotics teams has suddenly made it chic to be geek.</p><p>Robotics team members are getting varsity letters and patches, being paraded before school assemblies like other sports stars and seeing trophies in the same lobby display cases as their football, basketball or baseball counterparts.</p><p>"It's the new kid on the block," said Dawn Nichols, head of school at Convent of the Visitation Catholic School in Mendota Heights, which has the only all-girls robotics team in the state.</p><p>A telling statistic: For the first time ever, there are more varsity robotics teams than there are boys' varsity hockey teams in the state. There are 156 high school boys' hockey teams and 180 robotics teams, up from 153 last year, according to the Minnesota State High School League.</p><p><a href="http://www.startribune.com/local/south/188507421.html">Keep reading...</a></p>

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