Homeschool Introduction to Engineering

Budding engineers, listen up!  Engineering is a LOT fun, but a future in engineering requires some math and science.

My 14 year old will be participating in the First Lego League in which he will 1) Build and program a small robot to accomplish challenges and 2) investigate a research topic then prepare a presentation. Both activities culminate in a competition with other teams at a regional tournament. This is to build build science, engineering and technology skills.

My question is what exact subjects do I categorize this into: obviously science, but which science exactly and since he will be researching and speaking, would it be considered English or Social Studies as well? And how will this look on his transcripts?

Thank you for your help.
~Esther in Washington

Dear Esther,
My son did a class much like that as an Introduction to Engineering. He took the class in COLLEGE

I would call the class an Introduction to Engineering class.  Use all of the experiences within that league as one single class to make it a big, beefy credit. At the end, estimate how many hours he spent with it. 120-180 hours is one high school credit. All the papers and speaking will all be part of his science credit.

One word of warning. When kids like engineering, they do need to cover the basics of biology, chemistry, and physics while they are in high school, so eventually he will need to cover those things as well. This is sort of an elective-science, but he will also need the regular sciences in order to do well in college engineering.  Science, engineering, and technology degrees also require a lot of math.  Make sure you are working consistently on math every day during the school year, so a lack of math doesn’t become an impediment later on.

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