On Saturday, April 16, the Museum of Science capped National Robotics Week with a Robot Block Party and panel discussion.  Pictured below are Dr. Cynthia Breazel (MIT Media Lab),  Colin Angle (CEO, iRobot), John Dudas (President of FIRST), and Newton’s Catharine Pierce (Oak Hill 7th grader and member of FIRST Lego team, “The Giant Sticky Notes”).  They discussed how they got involved in robotics, FIRST and what it’s like, the future of robotics, the skills you need to be successful in robotics, and the social aspects of robots.  The Giant Sticky Notes demonstrated their robot to the thousands of attendees, and Paige Grody represented the Ligerbots.