It's a 'Robot Revolution' in South Orange!
Local entrepreneurs provide more opportunities for local kids to learn about robotics.
Robotics is big in the two towns. After the Columbia High School team garnered national — and even interntaional — acclaim nearly two years ago, teams across the towns at all levels started popping up. Local dads Davin Czukoski and Chris Marbaix — who also happen to be engineers — saw the boom through their ongoing involvement in coaching their kids and their kids' teams. But it soon became obvious that the interest from the kids outpaced their parents' abilities to coach them. "Davin and I both had robotics teams locally," said Marbaix. "We were trying to get the FLL [First Lego League] teams organized within the neighborhood but found more kids who wanted to do it than parents who had time to coach or who knew how to do it, so we decided…
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