PCS Edventures is launching their new online robotics competition website, The PCS Challenge Hub, in October 2009. They will be hosting a FREE 30-day trial Robotics Challenge (AORC) at that time. If you have been unable to participate in a robotics competition due to time, travel, and expense, this is an opportunity you can’t miss! [...]

Borrowing from Mother Nature, a team of MIT researchers has built a school of swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real thing, if not quite as fast.
Mechanical engineers Kamal Youcef-Toumi and Pablo Valdivia Y Alvarado have designed the sleek robotic fish to more easily maneuver into areas where [...]

President Obama launched a competition Friday for $4.35 billion in federal education funds, urging states to ease restrictions on charter schools, link teacher pay to student achievement and adopt common national academic standards to be eligible for the money.
In a speech at the Education Department, Obama joined Education Secretary Arne Duncan in announcing draft criteria [...]