INSIDE THE HALL UPPER SCHOOL
Welcoming the BearBots to Harpeth Hall Students have geared up and embarked on a year of building, coding, driving, and strategizing as members of the BearBots, Harpeth Hall’s new robotics team. Matthew Groves, a STEM teacher in the Upper School and the new head coach of the robotics team, is impressed by the student leadership, experience, and passion he has seen so far. “I’m most excited about the potential we have,” Mr. Groves said. “We have girls with interest and ability in all of the different areas you need to make a complete team, and we will become competitive in our region very quickly. It is great to be part of expanding STEM opportunities at Harpeth Hall.” Junior Sarah Joffrion is one of the BearBots’ newest members. Right now, the team is working to build and code a robot that can lift an object and move towards a platform. “At our upcoming competition, we do not have to use starter robots so we get to design our own robots,” Sarah said as she looked over her notebook full of diagrams and strands of code to determine what worked and what didn’t. “It is going great so far, but there is still a lot of work. I love problem solving. It is a lot of trial and error.”
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