River City High School

The courses need to be accomplished in succession with a C- or better in the capstone course in order to be considered a pathway completer. Additional participation in the Career Technical Student Organization: UCDavis C-STEM Center is encouraged. Possible certifications to be earned in the pathway courses: Carnegie Mellon Robotics Certificate, Carnegie Mellon Robotics Computational Thinking Certificate, Carnegie Mellon Robotics Motion and Sensor Control Certificate.

 

If you are creative and like to design, then you will have an interest in Robotics Engineering.  If you play video games, like to draw, and use technology like Math and Science, then you are on your way to becoming a future engineer. Since an engineer is essentially a designer. 

 

This pathway will allow the students to develop 21st century skills such as teamwork, problem solving, ideation, project management, and communication skills. Students will be engaged in the development, building, programming and troubleshooting of different modular robotics platforms such as: LEGO EV3, VEX IQ, VEX V5, LinkBots and Bioloids robots. In addition students will also learn how to build rockets and build, program and troubleshoot quad drones. The Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy and UCD-CSTEM curriculum will help students learn or reinforce their knowledge of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) concepts.

 

Topics will include the fundamental components of a robot, how sensors and actuators are used in robotics. Students will learn to program their robots using C++, RobotC, ChiDE and Python programming languages to participate in in-class competitions in the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy approved robotics and drone competition field. Students who successfully complete the pathway will receive a Carnegie Mellon University Roboticists Certificate.