Robotics is the 'premier integrator' in education today...

When students design and build robots they study math, science, engineering, and physics. Students are immersed in geometry, trigonometry, electronics, programming, logic, computer control and mechanics while using industry standard software and hardware. They learn to compromise when working in teams, and they begin to understand the importance of time management and resource allocation. Young roboticists are introduced to the concept of systems and systems analysis. Robotics Education gives students opportunities to develop the following work related competencies

• Time management
• Resource allocation
• Teaming
• Information accessing
• Systems analysis
• Design and engineering
• Logical thinking

Robotics challenges students in activities using today's technologies. It is an excellent tool to teach systematic problem solving and design strategies. It introduces students to the concept of systems and system analysis.
It integrates math, science, technology, and communications standards into one class.

Robotics, as an organizer of content, offers educators a unit of study that implicitly demonstrates the application of math, science, and technology. It introduces students to technological literacy as they develop the following work related competencies: project and time management, resource allocation, information accessing, systems understanding, teamwork, and problem solving. Robotics allows teachers to introduce academic concepts in a context that make sense to students. Students begin to understand the digital world in which they will grow up.

Mathematic teachers
Robotics enables students to “do” mathematics rather than study it. When robots are programmed to move specific distances students are required to apply geometry, measurement, conversion of units, ratios and proportions... Robotics is a motivational tool that brings math to life in the classroom.

Science teachers
Robotics investigations are designed to help students learn to apply scientific process. Science-oriented investigations in robotics curricula typically includes independent, dependent, and control variables. Students are required to form a hypothesis, test it and either reject it or accept it based on test results. Students quickly discover that science, unlike mathematics, has many more variables that affect the anticipated outcome.

Technology teachers
Robotics teaches children technological literacy. When students program, they learn how electronics, feedback from sensors, conditional statement, loops, and wait states manage the digital technologies that control the world they live in. They learn about systems, resource allocation, and time management. In robotics competitions they learn to work as a team, they are confronted with open-ended challenges where they develop the innovative problem solving skills needed to compete in the global economy.

Robotics as a content organizer
Robotics as a content organizer allows teachers to give students meaningful exercises that introduce or reinforce the following applied physics and mathematics concepts: ratios; diameter, radius, and circumference; friction; measurement of distance, time, angles; light and the electromagnetic spectrum; and basic electricity and circuits. At the same time students develop work-related competencies as they learn to work in teams to manage their projects.