010 | Girls Rule, STEM’s Cool: How Robotics Teaches Students How to Live & Lead | with Fatima Bainazar, Melissa Olvera, and Elizabeth Drake

One of the things that we love here at the PAST Foundation is having the opportunity to watch incredible young adults learn and grow; these amazing students are rock stars in our eyes, and giving them a space to stretch their wings is one of the most rewarding experiences we have.

And today, we want to introduce you to three of the rockstars that lead the Metrobots, Metro Early College High School’s (MECHS) FRC robotics team. Metrobots and several other robotics teams are housed at the PAST Innovation Lab, one of several co-created learning labs hosted at PAST.

We want to introduce you all to: Fatima Bainazar, a senior from Metro Early College and the project manager for the Metrobots; Melissa Olvera, a senior at Metro and the Administrative Project Manager for the Metrobots; and Elizabeth Drake, a junior at Metro who is interested in mechanical integration and engineering.

Collectively, these three ladies represent students from a variety of backgrounds, experiences, opportunities, and passions – just like Metro Early College.

To learn more, visit: pastfoundation.org

Resources:

• Metrobots: https://www.3324metrobots.org
• Start A FIRST Robotics Team: https://www.pastfoundation.org/start-a-first-robotics-team
• Learn more about Metro: https://www.themetroschool.org

Learning Unboxed is produced in part by Crate Media

Recorded by Eric French at WOSU Studios in Columbus, Ohio