North Division High School competes in first-ever RoboFest Hackathon
Photo by Pat Robinson
On Thursday, December 8, 2022, North Division Community High School in partnership with Milwaukee Robotics Academy (The Academy) hosted the first annual RoboFest Hackathon. Thirty North Division scholars (grades 9-12) received four hours of engineering design education at Messmer Preparatory School, 3027 N. Fratney St. The mid-day field trip was supported by NDHS Alumni Association, school staff, and fourteen Academy volunteers in Science, Technology, Arts, and Math (STEAM) professions across Milwaukee’s Fortune 500 firms.
Photo by Pat Robinson
The goal of the event is to inspire and kickstart the career of future mechanical engineers, industrial designers, computer scientists, and entrepreneurs in the North Division student body. In four hours, North scholars built, tested, and improved on 50+ prototypes in a “hackathon- tyle” competition, where people engage in rapid and collaborative engineering over a relatively short period of time.
Photo by Pat Robinson
The Academy was founded in 2021 with the mission to deliver hands-on learning through “Robotics” and most importantly, it allowed North students a peek into what it could be like to start a North Division Robotics team in 2023. The collective goal is that this experience will give North students the inspiration that physics, science communication, project management, manufacturing, engineering design, programming, and robotics can become a routine (and fun) part of their curriculum. For more information on The Academy visit their website at https://www.milwaukeeroboticsacademy.org.
