Robotics at Prep Schools

Prep School Admissions
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<p>When our son was researching prep schools, it was tough to find info about engineering and robotics programs that schools might offer.</p>

<p>This might be a good place for prospective and current students to post information that might be helpful to others with similar interests.</p>

<p>From our research (which is a full year old now - and things can change fast!) here are some schools which had either active clubs or actual coursework in robotics or engineering (listed in no particular order):</p>

<p>St. Marks (FIRST Robotics, electric car competition)
Loomis Chaffee (FIRST Robotics)
Ridley College (VEX Robotics)
Deerfield Academy (electric car competition)
Milton Academy (robotics club)
Choate (robotics club)</p>

<p>Our son is a 9th grader at Thacher, which is one of a small handful of high schools in the country which have access to the highly-sophisticated, artificial intelligence robots called NAO. Here’s a link to a Thacher news article about NAO:</p>

<p><a href=“https://www.thacher.org/podium/default.aspx?t=133949&nid=814192&bl=/default.aspx&rc=1[/url]”>https://www.thacher.org/podium/default.aspx?t=133949&nid=814192&bl=/default.aspx&rc=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Check out St. Paul’s School for engineering and robotics. SPS offers several engineering class and has a FIRST robotics team. Their new math & science building has wonderful facilities used for engineering/robotics.</p>

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<p>Exeter has robotics class, highly recommended by several faculty.</p>

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<p>I second creative1 about SPS. The robotics teacher, Mr. Wardrop, designed the lab down to the last outlet and it’s terrific.</p>

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<p>I thirdly endorse the Robotics program at SPS. Top notch, my son did a summer program at Stanford and is off to engineering college next year. SPS has a great nurturing program, physics/math really has been the best thing about SPS for him.</p>

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<p>And speaking of great science programs at SPS, I need to put a plug in for the wonderful astronomy classes and top notch telescopes including the largest telescope in New England.</p>