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VisualEdge,Inc. Named "Champion of Education"

Dallas, TX - VisualEdge is named the inaugural recipient of the "Champion of Education" by the Vex Robotics company at their 2010 Words Championship event in Dallas this past May. This award is to celebrate VisualEdge's success in pioneering a robotics training program for middle and high school STEM teachers in the state of Indiana.

This summer workshop program has introduced over 700 teachers to the benefits of robotics to the education of our youth. Once, the training is complete the teachers return to their classroom with thousands of dollars in equipment. They then create lesson plans to use the robot as part of their curriculum or they form an extracurricular robotics club.

VisualEdge & IRE in Robot Magazine's May/June 2011 Issue

Issue 28

May/June 2011

VEX League Play in the Hoosier State

by Daniel Ward II

The State of Indiana is at it again. Fall 2010 saw the first two of five VEX robotics league tournaments to be held in the 2010-2011 school year in support of the Indiana Robotics Educators (IRE) grant project. The first event, with 80 teams and hundreds of spectators was held in Bloomington at Ivy Tech Community College. The second was held at Indian Creek High School in Trafalgar,. As a new, unique and innovative competition concept ...click here for more

VisualEdge & IRE Featured in Robot Magazine's July/August 2008 Issue

Issue 11
July/August 2008

Grassroots Robotics

by Tom Atwood

A new and rapidly expanding robotics program in Indiana is enabling many thousands of high school students to design and build robots—and compete in robot challenges—as part of their school curriculums. This is an exciting development because the students get to “wrench” on robot designs of their own creation even as they learn the diverse disciplines that come together in robotics—mechanical engineering, electricity, math, materials science, physics and ...click here for more

VisualEdge & IRE in Robot Magazine's May/June 2009 Issue

Issue 16
May/June 2009

The Indiana Robotics Educators Program

by Doug Porter

As a teacher, I get advertisements for education workshops all of the time. Last year, a flyer from the Indiana Robotics Educators (IRE) instantly grabbed my attention. The IRE offered a free, three-day robotics workshop for 7th through 12th-grade teachers. Participants would be given a $300 VEX Robotics starter kit, Autodesk Inventor software and teaching materials to take back to the classroom plus training to tie these all together. I couldn’t pass up the chance of a free robot, so I immediately signed up. I was not disappointed. The IRE workshop was even better than I hoped it would be...click here for more (PDF)

VisualEdge & IRE in Robot Magazine's September/October 2009 Issue

Issue 18
September/October 2009

IRE VEX Competitions
Thriving

by Dan Ward II

The day had all the excitement of a high school sporting event. Fans crowded around the playing fields—some dressed in their team’s colors—and watched them prepare and practice. Nervous teachers, administrators and parents stood shoulder to shoulder with supporters from other schools. Raucous laughter and calls for equipment and tools echoed across the fields. Taunting, but friendly...click here for more (PDF)