COURSE CODE: 8420

Technology of Robotic Design

SCED Code: 21009
Virginia Extended Description: 18
Suggested Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12
Duration: 18 Weeks
Hours: 70
Credits: 0.5
Prerequisite: None
OSHA Compliance Required?: No
CTSO: TSA
Non-Traditional?: F

Students will engage in the study of robotic systems and their applications. Students will apply the engineering design process and explore topics including programming, electrical and mechanical concepts, and control systems. Learning and problem-solving activities will challenge students to design, build, and program robotic systems. Contextual instruction and student participation in co-curricular career and technical student organization (CTSO) activities will develop leadership, interpersonal, and career skills. High-quality work-based learning (HQWBL) will provide experiential learning opportunities related to students' career goals and/or interests, integrated with instruction, and performed in partnership with local businesses and organizations.

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Course Sequences

A combination of this course and those below, equivalent to two 36-week courses, is a concentration sequence. Students wishing to complete a specialization may take additional courses based on their career pathways. A program completer is a student who has met the requirements for a CTE concentration sequence and all other requirements for high school graduation or an approved alternative education program.

Career Clusters

Pathway Occupation
Information Support & Services
  • Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Programmers

Pathway Occupation
Health, Safety, & Environmental Assurance
  • Occupational Health and Safety Specialists
Logistics & Inventory Control
  • Logisticians
Manufacturing Production Process Development
  • Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians
  • Industrial Engineers
  • Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other
  • Production Workers, All Other
Production
Quality Assurance
  • Calibration Technologists and Technicians
  • Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other

Pathway Occupation
Engineering & Technology
  • Computer Hardware Engineers
  • Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians
  • Industrial Engineers
  • Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Mechanical Engineers
  • Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians
Science & Mathematics
  • Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
  • Technical Writers

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