Blake is the principal of our home school, but also the permanent substitute teacher for Lane’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) class!
Lane has far surpassed my abilities, just saying!
He is on track to have an impressive High School transcript with hopes to use it for his future studies.
I am not sure when it was that Lane named his robotics team – but the name is NER Robotics – which stands for No Experience Required.
CUTE!
Back at the beginning of October I decided to travel with the children and Blake to the robotics event Lane was competing in.
It was my first time to go along with them.
It was only a couple of hours away and we knew we could just take Jazzy with us!
Lane also had a friend that came along that day – which made it even MORE fun!!
The drive that day was BEAUTIFUL as we were on a road along the river.
And it was a gorgeous day too!
It got SO HOT for the beginning of October as you can see on the temperature guage in the van in the photo below!
I enjoyed seeing what these guys have been traveling to be a part of all these years!
I will say I was shocked when it was Lane’s turn to compete and the competition lasted TWO MINUTES.
What in the world???
All that prep and all that travel for two minutes???
They laughed so much at my shock!!!
He did compete three times that day – so six minutes total!!
The children and I did a lot of hanging out and were very happy to see some food trucks drive into the parking lot!
French fries for everyone – even though I had a cooler of food for lunch and snacks.
We left the competition right after dinner time, but stopped at a Chipotle to get some dinner.
I stayed in the van with Jazzy while they all went in and grabbed some food!
It was a beautiful drive home too.
Lane has another event coming up in a little over a week!
They will actually be traveling back to the same place we were that day back in October.
I will be cheering them on through texts and phone calls this time!!
Lane has learned SO MUCH through his CAD designing and building of these robots and I am so very glad that they do this!
I know that the hands on experience with this over the years will take him MUCH farther than any textbook could!
Very excited to watch the Lord write Lane’s story!
It is so fun to see your children’s interests and personalities emerge as they grow up!!
Here’s hoping Lane has good success at the next competition!!
