Fourth- and fifth-grade students at Robert Taylor Elementary School run up to parents and fellow students while waving pamphlets displaying this year's science project. Some miniature robots scurry through tiny mazes, others hang by their mechanical arms on ropes, and one lies disassembled in pieces on the table in front of the science teacher, Larry Pilan.

Such was the scene on May 22 at the Henderson school, when the Robert Taylor Robot Club held its first robotic demonstrations for students, parents and representatives from local engineering companies.