PLYMOUTH, N.H (WCAX) – Hundreds of students from across the region are heading to Plymouth State University today for a robotics competition.
Plymouth State recently cut the ribbon on a new state-of-the-art robotics lab. It was made possible with with a one million dollar grant that Sen. Jeanne Shaheen helped secure.
The lab and new equipment builds on the robotics program already in place at Plymouth State to help train the workforce of the future.
“So the students here when they are leaving have the capabilities within artificial intelligence and machine learning and how that integrates with the robots and the manufacturing or self driving car,” Bret Kulakovich, Robotics Program Coordinator said.
“What we have reacted are called cluster majors,” Donald Birx, Plymouth State University President said. “They are areas that bring together different disciplines to focus on the major problems of the state and the nation in the 21st century and this is an example of one of them.”
A couple hundred students from 26 high schools across the region are attending Saturday’s first New Hampshire robotics competition.
This is the 7th annual Governor’s Cup event.