Never give up — it’s a valuable lesson seventh grader Aahan Swain says he learned as a member of Walker Middle Magnet School’s Robotics Club. While he and his fellow classmates have fun creating and competing, these skills are laying an important foundation for their future careers in STEM. For Swain, it’s a career in the medical field. He credits his teachers for inspiring him and showing him that hard work pays off, a lesson that will grow with him.
Tell us about your experience with STEM at Walker Middle School. What clubs or competitions you have been involved in, and what was it like to attend Invention Convention Nationals?
Aahan Swain: STEM at Walker has been a really big part of my middle school experience. I am in the Robotics Club at school, and my team is called Wolfbotics. We have competed in the First Lego League and made it all the way to the state championship this year. I have also taken coding as my elective at school, where I started learning Python…