From BBC News – read the full article here.

San Diego’s high tech high school integrates robot making and gaming right into the heart of their curriculum. “Daisy May”, a waist-high robots that scuttles around, scooping balls off the ground and projecting them into a bin, has been designed by students at the school reached the semi-finals of an international competition.

The moment you walk into San Diego’s High Tech High you realise this is a school unlike most others.

Andrew Webb, BBC

David Berggren, High Tech High’s engineering instructor and the person responsible for integrating robots in to the curriculum explains that students “learn through doing, through experiencing, building and creating not so much out of lecturing and testing” and are able to balance their other subjects by learning how to “balance loads” which he thinks reflects how we operate when having to apply skills learnt in school in future jobs and workplaces.

You can read the full article by Andrew Webb Technology reporter, BBC News including videos of the students work here on the BBC News website.