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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