Career Readiness

Robotics
Program

Mentoring students to become leaders in STEM-related industries—through hands-on robotics, competition, and engineering mentorship.

Audience
Middle & high school students
Cadence
Year-round build & competition cycle
Robotics Program

01

Build

Students design, build, and program competitive robots—learning engineering by doing it, not by reading about it.

02

Compete

Teams participate in regional and national competitions where mentees represent The 100 alongside their peers.

03

Mentor

Engineers, professionals, and Collegiate 100 alumni guide students through the technical work and the soft skills that go with it.

About the program

The work, up close.

The 100's Robotics Program is built on a simple premise: STEM careers belong to the young people who learn early that engineering is something they can do—not just something they can watch.

Through partnerships with engineering professionals and post-secondary institutions, students get access to the tools, mentorship, and team experience that competitive robotics requires. They learn to wire, to code, to debug, to lose a match and try again on Monday.

Most importantly, they learn it in rooms full of Black engineers, technicians, and college students who look like them—so that the picture of a STEM future is one they can actually see themselves in.

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