Workforce development downtown Reno: UNR’s robotics center to open soon

For several years FYRE Robotics has designed and built for the FIRST Robotics Competition in the University’s Innevation Center and its Makerspace; this photo of the 2019 team was taken pre-pandemic.

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The past will soon meet the future of workforce development in the historic Southside Studio, operated by the University of Nevada, Reno in downtown Reno.

K-12 robotics competition teams help to stimulate interest and development in robotics, computer science, engineering and automation, and these teams need large, open areas in which to design, build and test their creations.

The upstairs space of the former Southside School – which was once used as the combined gymnasium and performance stage – offers an answer. It will be home to the K-12…