Directs the commissioner of education to promulgate and review as necessary rules and regulations allowing trustees and boards of education of schools with a robotics program to conduct interschool robotics competitions for grades nine through twelve equivalent to the interschool athletic competitions conducted by such schools.
To Create The Robotics Competition Grant Program For Eligible Robotics Teams In Public Or Private Schools For The Purpose Of Encouraging Study In The Fields Of Science, Technology, Engineering, And Mathematics.
A bill for an act relating to robotics, including by establishing a robotics grant program within the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics collaborative initiative and requiring the university of northern Iowa to develop a public-private partnership to support robotics competitions, and making appropriations.