When you apply STEM to a passion, it doesn’t feel like work. It feels like fun. At RoboNation, hackathons and makerspaces are just the beginning — we help guide students from STEM all the way to breaking into the industry.
We envision a world where technology unites people to learn, share, and create.
Provide a pathway of hands-on educational experiences that empower students to find innovative solutions to global challenges.
Although there has been a positive steady growth in STEM graduates, we’re still seeing gaps. Students want to feel empowered and inspired. They need opportunities to apply their STEM education to real-world problems, and explore STEM in ways that relate to their own lives and communities.
We seek to fill those gaps.
Creating hands-on educational experiences that empower students, igniting their creativity to find innovative solutions. Beginning with a SeaPerch or SeaGlide program kit, we show students the why and how to build, while giving educators the tools and training to guide their students through the process.
Students grow their love for robotics with each RoboNation competition. They’re also building real-world skills they’ll need in the workforce, and in life.
Experiential learning is the foundation of students’ confidence. Competition brings that out, challenging students to transform their theoretical knowledge into practical solutions.
But they’re learning so much more than that. Students need to work as a team and take on a slew of other real-world challenges. They learn to re-investigate intricate details of theory (or develop entirely new ones!), harness their technical communication skills, and build valuable leadership skills. Along the way, students are also learning self-reliance and jump-start innovation; encouraging intelligent risk-taking as they exercise their growing STEM skills.
If what we just mentioned sound like valuable traits for a career in Robotics, it’s because they are. Which is why as students make the transition to industry, RoboNation provides career resources and tools to continue to support growth and professional development.
RoboNation, Inc. (previously the AUVSI Foundation) began operation in 2009 with generous support from AUVSI and three founding partners at the $100k level – SolidWorks, Northrop Grumman and Insitu (a Boeing company).
Today, RoboNation is an independent, tax exempt, 501(c)3 nonprofit whose mission is to provide a pathway of hands-on educational experiences that empower students to find innovative solutions to global challenges. Working together with the industry, research and educators, we have grown to include over nine student competitions and programs and engage more than 250,000 students per year.
We are a team of professionals, organizers and bot builders who want to see technology make the world a better place. And if you couldn’t tell already, we love what we do.