Faridodin "Fredi" Lajvardi pre-recorded for TEDxKids@Phoenix

Faridodin "Fredi" Lajvardi is the program director for the Marine Science Magnet Program at Carl Hayden High School. Mr. Lajvardi has been teaching at Carl Hayden H.S. for 26 years where he leads the Falcon Robotics Team, an extracurricular program that has received national and worldwide recognition. In 2004 the team had is break out moment when students from the robotics team went to the MATE National ROV Championships in Santa Barbara, California and came back as national champions in a competition that some said they had no business even being in. One of the competitors included the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The team has gone on to win other national competitions in the field of robotics. His robotics team has been featured in Wired magazine, Reader's Digest, ABC Nightline and on CNN with Soledad O'Brian's In America Series. Mr. Lajvardi and the Falcon Robotics team have inspired many other teams in Arizona and beyond. He and his team have revolutionized S.T.E.M. education at Carl Hayden HS and have dramatically increased the number of students going into engineering and technical fields. Mr. Lajvardi believes that every H.S. should have an extracurricular STEM program to help reverse the science, math and technology deficit that exists in Arizona and United States today by showing the youth of today that hard work and determination in S.T.E.M. fields can be fun, exciting and rewarding. More at https://sites.google.com/site/falconroboticsfrcteam842/

This video was pre-recorded and edited by Paul DeNigris and his team from UAT.

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Видео Faridodin "Fredi" Lajvardi pre-recorded for TEDxKids@Phoenix канала TEDxYouth