Friday, March 21, 2008

Competitive Learning

Hawaii robotics teams advance to national competition

I think that this type of exposure and recognition is great for Hawaii students. Most of the popular news about Hawaii students talks about falling test scores and how they compare to national averages. There's nothing like competition to give you that extra fire to do something great. I'd like to see more press on non-athletic competitions, not that I don't enjoy sports, but I think that a greater exposure may lead to greater participation and interest. What if there was a whole section in the newspaper dedicated to art, music, composition, software, engineering or other competitions. I think that would be pretty cool.

1 comment:

aaron said...

that is cool.

there are COE engineering competitions. we at the ICS department have dreams of software/programming/algorithm competitions.