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Robotics teach kids failure and mentorship
Students learn engineering through robotics competitions and mentorship.
In brief
Students learn engineering through robotics competitions and mentorship. Capitol City Robotics teaches kids engineering skills by designing, building, coding robots and competing, emphasizing failure as learning. Originally reported by Valleynewslive.
Helen Sullivan
Fourteen-year-old Helen Sullivan prepares for robotics competition after discovering engineering interest.
“I had no clue, I think this has given me a sense of direction in life. Now I have a path in mind and I’m not worried anymore”
Capitol City Robotics
A nonprofit in Washington, D.C. teaches engineering skills through robotics competitions and mentorship.
Ryan Daza
Founding executive director of Capitol City Robotics launched the nonprofit in 2018 to fill a gap for kids in the nation’s capital.
Robotics lessons
Students learn engineering design journals, data science, and communication through robotics competitions.
Student diversity
40% female, 44% students of color, and 30% scholarship recipients at Capitol City Robotics.
Failure as learning
Daza teaches students to view failure as data to improve, not a setback.
“Robotics can teach one of the most important things you can teach a kid. And that is how to fail and how to fail. And how to fail, fail hard”
The takeaway
Capitol City Robotics teaches kids engineering skills by designing, building, coding robots and competing, emphasizing failure as learning.
