Tune in tonight (or today, depending where you are) at 8:30 PM EST to watch the Q&A with cast and crew from the Miami screening for today’s Bots High worldwide screenings.

Tweet your questions to @botshigh.

And a new DVD page was launched. Check it out here. You can also get the film on Amazon!

Bots High will be playing at the DocuFest film festival in Atlanta this Thursday at 6 PM. More info here.

Larry Bock: Bots High Robotics Documentary – STEM, Gender Gaps, And Future Engineers In High School.

Check out the awesome article on Bots High in the Huffington Post!

Bots High will be playing in Tampa this weekend at the Independents’ Film Festival. It’ll be playing Saturday at 10 AM and an additional screening was just added for Friday at 4 PM. Myself and editor Andrew Hevia will be there, and possibly some people from the film. We’ll also be at the awards ceremony Saturday night where Bots High will get the Best Documentary award! Tickets available here.

Bots High takes place over the 2009-2010 school year. Unsurprisingly, the teams had a history before and after the time the film takes place (2011 Epilogue now in the DVD!). So to expand the scope and add some cool context and backstory to the Oct 6 screening day, I’ve been tracing the history of each team in the film each week in the newsletter.

So far we’ve heard about how Will from Ransom first built a robot in 6th grade, went up against a senior team, and won. Just now we explored freshman year of My Mechanical Romance’s Liz and Danielle, when they first get introduced to robotics.

I’m using Storify to compile this narrative, and updating as I release new stories via newsletter. But the newsletter goes more in depth with longer anecdotal stories.

So catch up and check out the history of the teams on the Storify page, and signup for the newsletter to get a weekly update about a team or robot in the film, leading up to October 6.

MAKE | Bots High Documentary Goes Inside World of High School Robot Builders.

Check out the latest Directors Notes podcast where I talk about the making of Bots High and other projects. Many thanks to MarBelle for the interview! I think his voice could work as a 1950s horror movie host.

Listen to the Interview

I’m working on the epilogue for the new DVD release and took a brake to show the bizarre, close proximity I am to what I’m editing.

With just about 1700 fans on the Facebook page, I’m having another giveaway! But this time it’s through the Meetup Everywhere screenings. By the end of the weekend I’ll randomly pick someone who RSVP’d to their city. If your city isn’t listed, add it! If 40 cities are listed by Monday I’ll pick two winners and send you a t-shirt and DVD!

(Be sure to include a way to be contacted, whether that’s submitting your email address when prompted or syncing with Facebook or Twitter. You’ll have 24 hours to respond and then I’ll pick another winner.)

Join Your City!

I’m getting in front of the camera now, explaining the Screening Day. Join here!