Braidhurst High School robotics Club have successfully started to make the journey to Scotland’s high tech future by activating their Raspberry Pi.   The robotics club is committed to delivering Scotland’s STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) future.   The club meets on Wednesday and Friday lunchtimes and is supervised by Mr Hussain of the Science Department, the topics covered by the club so far include Logic circuits, robotics and computer software/hardware architecture.   Pupils pictured are studying National 5 physics and one pupil is studying advanced higher Maths (One of the youngest pupils to do so in Scotland).

Their teacher Mr Hussain has a background in science and engineering, having worked as a commissioning engineer for some of the most well known companies around the world, such as NASA in the United States and Mitsubishi in Japan.   In the background is a picture of a robotic hand made by a Scottish company called Touch Bionics (www.touchbionics.com/) based in Livingston.   This company is where Mrs Hussain is a robotics engineer, “she’s the real expert in the family”, comments Mr Husain.   The company is a real success story that Scotland should be celebrating and has offices in many countries as well as fabrication facilities in the United States.