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Robots in Schools
on April 16, 2009
As nations battle for the top spot in world of technology, Israel hopes to expand its pool of homegrown talent by helping students build robots to compete in international challenges, the Los Angeles Times reports.
With support from corporate sponsors, students -- Arabs, ultra-Orthodox Jews and Ethiopian Jewish refugees -- are building robots to face off against high-end radio-controlled contraptions. The competitions give students hands-on experience that helps prepare them for future careers in Israel's high-tech industry, which is currently in a "deep slump."
In the 1990s, the field was boosted by immigrant engineers and technicians from the former Soviet Union. Although, exports account for about half of Israel's trade income, that source of brainpower has diminished in the past few years.
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