My grandkids from Hollywood, MD have been interested in robotics competition for the last two years. This year they won the world competition at Atlanta.   Yesterday at Howard University they participated in a competition with robotics teams from the Washington, DC area schools. My grandkid’s team won by a large score margin every game they played. My granddaughter suggested that in the interest of not embarrassing the other teams, they withdraw from the finals in order to give some other teams a chance to be recognized as winners. So they withdrew.   In informal interviews with a group of college professors and corporate sponsors after the competition they were ask a lot of questions about robots and their knowledge of science, math and history. One professor commented that their broad knowledge of these subjects was amazing and exceeded that of many adults (and college students) they had interviewed and the school they attend must be doing a real good job. Then she ask: "What school do you attend?" The answer was: "We are home schooled." The professor commented: "Then that explains it! Most schools in Maryland are teaching only the information needed to pass the tests with little regards to giving the kids a broad knowledge of the subject matter."     Jack Spangler Ellicott City, MD Who interviewed a Washington DC area school teacher who thought that France was the enemy in WWII and Germany was our ally.  That was the reason for the invasion of France on D-day. (Her knowledge of the history of the the war with Japan went down hill from there!)   PS My granddaughter even conducted a conversation in Latin with one of the professors.

WOW! Congrats to all! It shows if you have the right teacher what all you can learn! Some home school parents are much much better than the average school teacher... Sharon On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 8:50 AM, hokie53@the-spanglers.net < hokie53@the-spanglers.net> wrote: > > My grandkids from Hollywood, MD have been interested in robotics > competition for > the last two years. This year they won the world competition at Atlanta. > > Yesterday at Howard University they participated in a competition with > robotics > teams from the Washington, DC area schools. My grandkid’s team won by a > large > score margin every game they played. My granddaughter suggested that in the > interest of not embarrassing the other teams, they withdraw from the finals > in > order to give some other teams a chance to be recognized as winners. So > they > withdrew. > > In informal interviews with a group of college professors and corporate > sponsors > after the competition they were ask a lot of questions about robots and > their > knowledge of science, math and history. One professor commented that their > broad > knowledge of these subjects was amazing and exceeded that of many adults > (and > college students) they had interviewed and the school they attend must be > doing > a real good job. Then she ask: "What school do you attend?" The answer was: > "We > are home schooled." The professor commented: "Then that explains it! Most > schools in Maryland are teaching only the information needed to pass the > tests > with little regards to giving the kids a broad knowledge of the subject > matter." > > > Jack Spangler > Ellicott City, MD > Who interviewed a Washington DC area school teacher who thought that France > was > the enemy in WWII and Germany was our ally. That was the reason for the > invasion of France on D-day. (Her knowledge of the history of the the war > with > Japan went down hill from there!) > > PS > My granddaughter even conducted a conversation in Latin with one of the > professors. > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Your grandchildren sounds amazing. Congrulations. Betty -----Original Message----- From: hokie53 <hokie53@the-spanglers.net> To: vafloyd <vafloyd@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sat, Sep 11, 2010 9:50 am Subject: [VAFLOYD] Not genealogy. Proud grandpa - again! y grandkids from Hollywood, MD have been interested in robotics competition for he last two years. This year they won the world competition at Atlanta. esterday at Howard University they participated in a competition with robotics eams from the Washington, DC area schools. My grandkid’s team won by a large core margin every game they played. My granddaughter suggested that in the nterest of not embarrassing the other teams, they withdraw from the finals in rder to give some other teams a chance to be recognized as winners. So they ithdrew. n informal interviews with a group of college professors and corporate sponsors fter the competition they were ask a lot of questions about robots and their nowledge of science, math and history. One professor commented that their broad nowledge of these subjects was amazing and exceeded that of many adults (and ollege students) they had interviewed and the school they attend must be doing real good job. Then she ask: "What school do you attend?" The answer was: "We re home schooled." The professor commented: "Then that explains it! Most chools in Maryland are teaching only the information needed to pass the tests ith little regards to giving the kids a broad knowledge of the subject matter." ack Spangler llicott City, MD ho interviewed a Washington DC area school teacher who thought that France was he enemy in WWII and Germany was our ally. That was the reason for the nvasion of France on D-day. (Her knowledge of the history of the the war with apan went down hill from there!) S y granddaughter even conducted a conversation in Latin with one of the rofessors. To contact Listowner: ena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com iew the Floyd County Virginia Website at: ttp://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message