Coe-Brown Northwood Academy’s ‘Ursa Major’ Robotics Club to host 50 teams at VEX Robotics meet
NORTHWOOD — Seven years ago, in direct response to growing interest in robotics by students and parents from the school’s sending communities, Coe-Brown Northwood Academy started its first official high school Robotics Club. CBNA faculty member Scott Goelzer was assigned the task of developing a program, choosing a competition platform, and collecting the components necessary to build the robots.
Goelzer first sought advice from friends and mentors within the academic and science community, including then-Pembroke Academy science teacher David Kelly. Kelly, who passed away in 2022, was widely known as the “grandfather of robotics” in New Hampshire. A dedicated teacher of more than 30 years, and a passionate advocate of the value of robotics as an educational tool, Kelly was the…
