IRHS Advisory's Guide 3rd Edition

REC FOUNDATION• INTERNATIONAL ROBOTICS HONOR SOCIETY

Introduction

The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation’s mission is to provide every educator with competition, education, and workforce readiness programs to increase student engagement in science, technology, engineering, math (STEM), and computer science. The International Robotics Honor Society provides students with official recognition of their robotics accomplishments during their high school careers. Once schools have applied for and received approval to begin their IRHS chapter they will be able to open the annual process to allow qualified students to apply and be inducted into this special organization. The purpose of this guide is to provide support for chapter advisors. Information includes the current constitution, a student application, the evaluation process, and guidelines for all chapters. Official IRHS updates for advisors are available on your dashboard at robotevents.com. School Chapters are the foundation upon which to build successful leaders. Advisors and robotics coaches are the critical variable that determines whether desirable student outcomes are achieved through students’ activities. Use this guide as a means of direction as well as reference tool for students, parents, and coaches throughout the school year. Each high school sets its own specific criteria for selection within a set of broad guidelines. Selection requires a minimum GPA of 3.5 and students must demonstrate evidence of significant leadership accomplishments, service to school and community, and good character. Students must truly be leaders, which means they have contributed both time and ideas to improve school climate and activities. A guideline for community service is the student has a regular, ongoing volunteer commitment in addition to participating in one-day events. The service component has been expanded into more of a service-learning platform. The purpose is to allow the students to better structure their service to align with what they are learning in robotics and to be able to reflect upon the impact of their outcome. Students are considered for selection at the end of the second quarter of their sophomore, junior, and senior years. Once selected for membership, a student must continue to maintain the same high standards of leadership, character, scholarship, and service and must participate in chapter activities to remain a member .

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