Pitsco sponsors $500 teacher awards

Educators can enter to win quarterly product gift certificates in 2012

Recognizing a good thing when we see it, Pitsco Education has continued its teacher scholarship program started in 2011 to celebrate the company’s 40th anniversary. Educators who enter are in the running for a $500 Pitsco Catalog gift . . .

SkillsUSA 2012: RoboRescue Nuclear Fallout

April 30, 2012 – A disaster has occurred at a nuclear power plant. Responders must act fast to prevent an even worse catastrophe, but the environment inside the plant is extremely dangerous for human workers. Sounds pretty familiar, right? . . .

Pitsco finalist for Kansas Exporter of the Year

April 13, 2012 – Pitsco Inc. is among five finalists for the 2012 Governor’s Exporter of the Year award. The Kansas Department of Commerce and the Kansas International Trade Coordinating Council announced finalists for the award, which is . . .

Going Global: TETRIX® Robotics Making an Impact

Building system moves into Europe, Middle East, Mexico, and beyond

PITTSBURG, Kan. (Nov. 8, 2011) – Less than four years after its release, the TETRIX ® Building System continues to spread across the globe and into the hands of educators inspired to teach robotics. ( Printable PDF ) Pitsco . . .

TETRIX® Robotics platform gains traction

Metal building system fits the bill for wide range of educational applications

From Hollywood to Mexico to Europe. At FIRST World Championships, major universities, SkillsUSA, and National Instruments. The TETRIX ® building system has been blazing a trail in educational robotics during the past two years. And the path . . .

TETRIX® robot joins will.i.am on national stage

Custom-designed, human-form bot debuts on national TV

PITTSBURG, Kan. – Not even developers of the TETRIX® building system used in the FIRST Tech Challenge knew its robustness until presented with an unexpected, last-minute task – build a human-form robot that would appear on stage with . . .

White House Science Fair touts robotics

Pitsco and LEGO^® Education robotics products featured by winning FIRST teams

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Just when they thought it couldn’t get any better, members of the Rock N’ Roll Robots team from Los Angeles, California, had the experience of a lifetime when their efforts were recognized by the President of the United States during . . .

Building K-12 robotics success

LEGO® Education’s FIRST and Pitsco Education’s STEM lead the way

Robotics no longer is the future. It’s the present . Students as young as six years old participate in Junior FIRST LEGO ® League, and they progress through other upper-elementary, middle level, and high school FIRST competitions. ( Printable . . .

Teachers-to-be take to TETRIX^®

Emporia State University education students tackle robotics challenge

Middle school students and science education majors faced off in a Mission to Mars Science Olympiad robotics competition at Emporia (Kansas) State University last fall. Using Pitsco Education's customizable TETRIX ® building system, teams designed and . . .