{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Thumbcoast.tv | ebw.tv - Serving Port Huron and the Thumbcoast","provider_url":"https:\/\/thumbcoast.tv","title":"High School Robotics Showcases Future Talent for St. Clair County","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"JEcM0Tj7OU\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thumbcoast.tv\/high-school-robotics-showcases-future-talent-st-clair-county\/\">High School Robotics Showcases Future Talent for St. Clair County<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/thumbcoast.tv\/high-school-robotics-showcases-future-talent-st-clair-county\/embed\/#?secret=JEcM0Tj7OU\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;High School Robotics Showcases Future Talent for St. Clair County&#8221; &#8212; Thumbcoast.tv | ebw.tv - Serving Port Huron and the Thumbcoast\" data-secret=\"JEcM0Tj7OU\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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They\u2019re even responsible for doing different presentations to companies, so it\u2019s a great way to become a fully-rounded individual prior to joining the workforce.\u201d Seymore added companies are stepping up by providing different types of support for local robotics teams, whether financial or in-kind contributions or lending their knowledge and experience. \u00a0 \u00a0PTM Corporation is one such company. As CEO of the metal stamping manufacturing company, Donna Russell-Kuhr sees not only kids building robots, but the talented future workforce of St. Clair County. Her company sponsors Cardinal Mooney\u2019s Robosapians robotics team and lets the team use her shop to put together and test the robots. \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cI joined robotics a couple years ago mostly because I wanted to expand my reach and my understanding of different fields and different things I wasn\u2019t at all familiar with,\u201d said Hani Nasr, Robosapians co-captain, and business strategy team leader. \u201c\u2026it also gave me more opportunities to grow in the things that I\u2019m interested in and in the skills that are going to be important to me in the future. I\u2019ve gained mechanical skills, electrical skills, some coding \u2013 programming \u2013 skills,\u201d Nasr added. \u201cBut more than that I\u2019ve gained social skills, self-confidence and things you wouldn\u2019t expect to be associated with building a robot, but these things are important when you\u2019re going about the process of collaborating with your team and with other teams, and the community.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0Those skills and more are why Russell-Kuhr thinks robotics gives participants a heads up in the job market for any industry. While robotics is currently only available to high school students on a local level, she and other community leaders are working on introducing it to the rest of K-12. Russell-Kuhr would like to see all types of students join robotics teams, and Cardinal Mooney senior Erin Parlow shares that idea. \u201cFor better or worse, both of my parents are engineers so I kind of grew up without any doubt I\u2019d go into STEM. When I got to Cardinal Mooney, I quickly joined the robotics team,\u201d said Parlow, who is a Robosapians co-captain and lead of the programming team. \u201cBut then I learned it was so much more \u2013 it was a really inclusive environment and we could learn lots of things and different skills. I hope that in the future everyone joins and realizes that this is not just about the stereotypical robotics students. It\u2019s so much more about everything else that goes into it, just really figuring out who you are as an individual.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0Forty-one teams will compete in the FIRST Robotics district competition at Maryville High School from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on April 5. Finals will be held April 6."}