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An Editorial Opinion of The Selma Times-Journal

Last weekend, local students were participating in a robotics competition at Wallace Community College Selma.

They got a chance to put what they’ve learned in the classroom and apply it to real life. They built the robots from the kit they received weeks before the competition.

Teams represented Selma well including Edgewood Elementary School, Payne Elementary School, Meadowview Elementary School, Clark Elementary School, alongside R.B. Hudson Steam Academy and Sophia P. Kingston Elementary School. Other schools presented were McKee Middle School, which is out of Montgomery; Joseph S. Bruno Montessori Academy, which is located in Birmingham; and New Brockton Elementary School among others including two Prattville Schools, Millbrook Middle School and and an Elmore community team.

“It been a whole lot of maneuvering this and moving that and it was a lot of problem solving going on but that’s what makes it amazing with this STEM initiative, all of this is STEM, math, science and for them to be problem solving together as a team, it’s totally awesome,” local elementary teacher Rita Carmichael said.

This is a great event to help get students exposed to what they can do in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. We are grateful for Wallace Community College Selma for hosting this great event to help further the education of students here and from the region.