Volunteer mentoring program teaches robotics

Maggie Rossiter Peterman:

In an abandoned insurance office, a handful of Madison engineers and scientists logged hundreds of volunteer hours to create a workshop so high school students could put their math and science lessons into practice.

It's a drill two GE Healthcare engineers - Rob Washenko and Bob Schulz - have performed 20 hours a week for six weeks each of the last four years to assist Memorial High School science and aerospace engineering teacher Ben Senson in the development of a high school robotics program.

"We teach students how to think to solve problems," said Washenko, 50, an engineering manager and inventor at GE Healthcare in Madison.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at March 13, 2007 5:54 AM
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