What is the
EcoBot Challenge?
The EcoBot Challenge gives students the option of entering two different competitions.
- They can build physical robots that perform specific environmental tasks.
- They can develop ideas for robots that perform other environmental tasks and then create a PowerPoint presentation that describes how they would market their inventions.
Both contests are open and free to all Texas students in grades 5-8.
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Educational Value
The EcoBot Challenge:
- Helps students see math, physics, computer, language and science skills as tools that can help them achieve
life’s goals
- Inspires real-world problem solving
Teaches experimentation/scientific method
- Stimulates creativity
- Enhances presentation skills, teamwork and resilience
- Opens windows to a wider world
Social Value
- Excites kids about learning
- Improves educational outcomes
- Generates interest in engineering and science
- Teaches intellectual collaboration and respect for competition
- Channels kids in positive and productive directions
- Gives them a greater understanding of individual responsibility for the environment
- Helps them gain a global perspective on the environment and competition
- Helps them learn how other countries address complex issues using technology
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