Vinh Tran joined Laguna Blanca 

in the 2015-16 school year to 

help build the school’s growing 

robotics curriculum. In this 

issue, he shares how he got into 

teaching and how he hopes to 

inspire students from grades 

seven to 12 to get more involved 

in STEM (Science, Technology, 

Engineering, Math) education.

SPOTLIGHT ON:

VINH TRAN

MIDDLE AND UPPER SCHOOL ROBOTICS

Robotics is a semester-long elective class 
open to all Laguna students starting in 
seventh grade. Middle school students 
start with VEX IQ kits and program with 
Modkit (similar to building from scratch). 
Upper School students start with VEX 
EDR kits and begin using a text-based 
programming language called RobotC. To 
learn more, visit vexrobotics.com. 

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