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Teaching BattleBots in High School

Some Guy writes: "We all know that everyone's favourite TV show is BattleBots on Comedy Central, Right? Well, a new program has started at my old high school that teaches BattleBots to kids. It's a truly engaging engineering program/curriculum that kids and school systems can use for credit. The program is called BattleBots IQ. Kids out there can get their teachers to go to battlebots training camps during the summer, and then have them teach battlebots to them as a class. I wish it was around when I was a kid."

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  1. Do you Opera users love it wide? I know I do! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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  2. Re:I've always wondered... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Because Comedy Central is a 1 show network :
    South Park. All the rest of the crap on there
    is exactly that - Crap. Battlebots sucks, IMO,
    but thats me. Crank Yankers really sucks, and
    nobody can say any differently. Why they're
    shoving it down our throats is beyond me. How
    about other really worthless shows from the
    Comedy Central past? Strangers With Candy?
    Utter tripe. Complete shit. That's My Bush?
    Garbage. None of it was funny.

    Hear me now, Comedy Central. Stop. Quit trying.
    You people aren't funny. If it weren't for Parker
    and Stone, you wouldn't exist. Want ratings?
    Just show South Park all day long. Then throw
    in MadTV, Kids In The Hall and The Upright Citizens
    Brigade and you've got the badass lineup. Show
    old (Eddie Murphy and prior) SNL too, but leave
    off anything after Eddie .. it was (and continues
    to be) crap.

  3. Tivo Rules! slightly OT by bsane · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I just got a tivo a few weeks ago. The best part is I can watch an hour long battlebots episode in about 10 minutes. The worst part is that they make new episodes out of fights they've already aired...