I think I have tried to engage in some STEM activities, but really appreciate the opportunity to explore how to communicate with my students why or how this is Engineering, and acknowledging /looking for the connection to Math in our Science work.
While the robots left me wondering how this is specifically connected to curriculum, I have had some experience since that has helped me appreciate more of the potential for this to allow students to be creative - more than just from an excitement point of view, but from a big, designing, showing understanding perspective.