Braidhurst High School Robotics Club has once again teamed Diamond Dogs from Airdrie Academy so that they could put on an exhibition match at the North Lanarkshire Learning Festival. 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.

The collection of pictures show pupils from Braidhurst High and from Dalziel High School. One of the club members is pictured delivering a master class to the boys and Girls from Dalziel High school.

In the VEX Competitions, presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, teams of students are tasked with designing and building a robot to play against other teams from around the world in a game-based engineering challenge. Classroom STEM concepts are put to the test on the playing field as students learn lifelong skills in teamwork, leadership, communications, and more. Tournaments are held year-round at the regional, state, and national levels; local champions go on to compete against the best in the world at VEX Worlds each April.

In another picture girls from the Braidhurst High Robotics club were given an opportunity to meet Bridie Gaynor from Innovation First, who are the main supplier of  the VEX Robotics Design System, as used by the club to nurture creative advancement in robotics and the knowledge of science, technology, engineering, and math education (STEM).  Mr Hussain whose wife is a robotics engineer  commented that he is particularly proud of the addition of females into the robotics club for the new challenge as announced by VEX at the World Championships.

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. Robotics runs in the family as his wife works for a Scottish company called Touch Bionics (www.touchbionics.com/ ) based in Livingston, “she’s the real expert in the family”, comments Mr Hussain. 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 Sates.