The current mission mandates of the National 4-H Headquarters are Citizenship, Healthy Living, and Science. Robotics programs are excellent in fulfilling the Science mandate. Robotics engages students in STEM (Science, Engineering, Technology, and Mathematics) fields by providing interactive, hands-on, minds-on, cross-disciplinary learning opportunities (Barker, 2006 and the references therein). Easily modified curriculum accounts for varying needs and available resources. Research shows that informal science experiences have a strong influence on whether a youth will follow a STEM career (Schwartz & Noam, 2007), thus robotics programs can influence career choices of participants. Middle and high school students in the United States consistently perform poorly in internationally-administered STEM tests, e.g., U.S. 15-year-olds ranked 27th out of 39 countries that participated in a 2003 administration of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) examination, which assessed students' ability to apply mathematical concepts to real-world problems (National Center for Education Statistics, 2005). It makes sense, then, to address this problem early by gearing robotics towards elementary or middle school youth. This article focuses on programs appropriate for middle school youth.