Robotics Competition Program

CyberKids Robotics is a non-profit education company dedicated to improving the STEM education of students in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia through our exciting robotics competition program.  The CyberKids Robotics Competition Program is a great hands-on learning experience for children in grades four through nine.  Children learn team work as well as math, science, computer programming and critical thinking skills in a fun environment.  CyberKids’ experienced staff works with your children and prepares them for local, state and national robotics competitions.

Robotics teams consist of four to eight children.  Each team works together to solve missions and compete against other teams in their area.  Teams have the opportunity to compete on the local, state and national levels.

Each team works together to design and build a robot.  They write computer programs to make their robot complete required missions.  Competition teams earn points based on how their robot successfully completes required missions.  Each team will have 2 ½ minutes during the competition to earn as many points as possible.

CyberKids Robotics provides all the computers, software and robotics equipment needed.  Each practice session lasts for one hour and thirty minutes.  CyberKids will schedule three hours of robotics practice time per month.  A CyberKids coach brings all the required computer and robotics equipment to your school for each practice session.  Our coaches and mentors teach your children to design, build and program their competition robots.  Each team applies these skills toward competing successfully against other competition teams. Each team conducts research on a topic that is special to each annual competition.  After the research is complete, the team creates a special oral presentation to present to a panel of judges at the robotics competition.  The research presentation cannot exceed five minutes in length.  All team members must participate in the presentation of the team's research project.

CyberKids' Robotics Competition Program is fun, exciting and very affordable.  We will invoice the school or sponsor for all the teams participating in the program.  The cost for our Robotics Competition Program is $180 per team per month.  This cost covers all the computers, software, robots and practice sessions for the team. If a team wants to compete in the state robotics championship, there is an additional $235 tournament registration fee that must be paid by September 7th.  Also, all teams competing in the state robotics championship are required to participate in a one week robotics camp during the summer. If you are interested in the CyberKids Robotics Competition Program for your school, please call one of our Marketing Representatives at (828) 292-2393 or e-mail your request for more information to cyberkids@charter.net.

STEM Education

Did You Know ?...

• Forty percent (40%) of all students test at below basic math level.  (2005 National Assessment of Education Progress)
• Fifty percent (50%) of all students test at below basic science level.  (2005 National Assessment of Education Progress) 
• The number of engineering degrees awarded in the United States is down 20% from the peak year of 1985.   (Tapping America’s Potential; www.tap2015.org) 
• Although U.S. fourth graders score well against international competition, they fall near the bottom or dead last by the time they are 12th graders in mathematics and science.  (Tapping America’s Potential) 
• By 2014, there are expected to be 2 million jobs created in STEM-related fields.  (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) 
• 30 years ago, the U.S. produced the third highest number of science degrees…in 2003 we were 17th….if the trend continues, 90% of the world’s engineers will live in Asia.  (National Science Foundation Research) 
• According to the 2006 assessment by the Program for International Assessment (PISA) of 15 year olds, U.S. students ranked 7th among the G-8 nations, 17th out of 41 nations in science, 28th out of 41 nations in mathematics – a decline of 10 places since 2000, and 24th out of 41 on problem-solving skills. 
• Prospective engineers dropped from 36% of high school seniors to 6% in just ten years.  (National Science Foundation research) 
• In 2000, only 17% of American undergraduate degrees were in the sciences, while in China it was 56%.