As a rule, high school kids tend to avoid doing things with their parents. Like the plague.  So it's nice to read an article about mothers and daughters doing something significant together . . . such as making robots.

StarBot is a Miami-based organization that promotes robotics. They partnered with the Miami-Dade school district to host a workshop at Northwestern Senior High. Organizers of this workshop wanted to expose girls from low-income families to careers in science and engineering. Kathy Lyden, a computer-science teacher, picked ten teenagers who had expressed interest in science to participate.

Over the course of three meetings, the mom-daughter teams learned basic robotics. They built robots that can play soccer, culminating in a robotic soccer match.

Says Lyden, "Once they participate in a workshop like this--and see what they are capable of doing--they're hooked. It opens doors for them."

14-year-old Shantrice Mattis agrees. "It shows that women can do anything."

Read the complete article here.