Teens assemble a way to learn about robotics

Enrichment: Homeschool students build camaraderie, computer programming skills and an intertest in electronics during a class taught by a parent.

By Katie Martin
Sun Staff
Originally published June 5, 2005
Sitting at a counter in her basement, Angela Cannaliato worked with her classmates to check the power of several batteries to ensure there was enough charge to run their two robots.

Cannaliato and eight other teenagers were trying to refine the movements of the robots, which they want to maneuver through a maze.

The teens are homeschooled, but they work together in an extracurricular robotics class taught by Angela's mother, Ann Cannaliato, in the family's Eldersburg home.

Angela Cannaliato said she got interested in robotics after watching her father build robots and compete.