Polk State To Host FIRST LEGO League State Invitational: More Than 48 Teams Scheduled to Attend
More than 1,600 students and LEGO enthusiasts are expected to gather at Polk State College’s Winter Haven campus on May 6, as it hosts the FIRST LEGO League State Invitational. Forty-eight teams of up to…
TALON Students Learn Sky, Literally, Is the Limit for Their Engineering, Programming Skills
Eight days into their TALON experience, middle school students from across Polk County have built, programmed and refined their own machines using LEGO Robotics kits. On Friday, during a drone presentation, they learned that…
Registration Open for Polk State’s TALON Robotics Summer Program
Registration is now open for Polk State College’s TALON Robotics summer program. Since 2012, TALON has offered middle- and high-school students the chance delve into the world of robotics, building and programming their own machines…
FIRST LEGO League Central Florida Regional Championship
Forty-eight teams from eight counties competed in the FIRST LEGO League Central Florida Regional Championship at Polk State College on the Winter Haven campus on Sunday, February 28, 2016.
Polk State Hosting FIRST LEGO League Central Florida Regional Championship and Jr. Expo; Competitors from Eight Counties to Attend
More than 1,000 students and LEGO enthusiasts are expected to gather at Polk State College’s Winter Haven campus on Feb. 28, as it hosts the FIRST LEGO League Central Florida Regional Championship and Jr. Expo.…
TALON Robotics Participant Recognized as Sunshine State Scholar
A high school student who volunteers with Polk State College’s TALON Robotics program has been named a Sunshine State Scholar. Each year, every school district in the state selects an academically outstanding 11th-grader to receive…
Polk State College Honors AT&T for Support of Robotics Program
The Polk State Foundation on Monday recognized AT&T for its $25,000 grant, which made it possible for more students to take part in a fast-growing summer robotics program at the College. “Two things go hand…
Annual TALON Robotics Culminates with Exciting Robot Rumble
If you’d only seen their faces, or their pumping fists, or the way some bounced from foot to foot, you might have guessed the dozens of kids gathered at Polk State Lakeland on Thursday were…
Polk State Has Several Options for Kids This Summer
Polk State College has several exciting, educational options for children this summer, including two new programs that emphasize robotics and Kids at College, a popular choice for Polk County families since it began 20 years…
TALON Robotics Students Having Some Serious Fun
Standing outside the classroom where about a dozen high-school kids are participating in TALON Robotics, it sounds like there’s too much fun going on for serious learning to be taking place. The whizzing of wheels.…