Hyundai Motor Manufacturing provides grant money for MPS robotics programs

Jemma Stephenson, Montgomery Advertiser
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Robotic arms assemble vehicles in the weld shop at the Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama plant in Montgomery on Jan. 18, 2019. The vehicle manufacture on Friday provided a $78,800 grant to expand robotics programs at Montgomery Public Schools.
Robotic arms assemble vehicles in the weld shop at the Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama plant in Montgomery on Jan. 18, 2019. The vehicle manufacture on Friday provided a $78,800 grant to expand robotics programs at Montgomery Public Schools.

Montgomery Public Schools will receive a $78,800 grant to expand robotics programs at all eight high schools.

Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama provided the grant, after teaming up with Auburn University's Southeastern Center of Robotics Education to start the Hyundai Initiative for Robotics Excellence. The partnership's goal is to establish middle school robotics teams at public Montgomery schools.

This initiative will provide equipment, training and support for high school robotics.

“Middle school students involved in the HIRE initiative this year have learned so many skills from this experience — teamwork, critical thinking skills, problem solving, written and verbal communication, and much more," said Mary Lou Ewald, director of STEM outreach programs for Auburn University’s College of Sciences and Mathematics in a statement. "It’s not about teaching robotics, it’s about using robots to teach.”

Jemma Stephenson is the children and education reporter for the Montgomery Advertiser. She can be reached at jstephenson@gannett.com or 334-261-1569.

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