Amy Radinovic. “They also do projects like building candy catapults, where they give the kids their sticks and the different things that they can use, and they kind of watch them without giving them too much information. It’s neat how you watch how much more they pay attention when it’s a high schooler, who they admire.” The district’s commitment to technology extends to the use of AI in education, and administrators are currently partaking in professional development to ensure safe and effective technology use in classrooms.“We’re engaged in a nine-part series with with a robotics component that ties directly down into our junior high school, where we already have some STEAM programming in place, some robotics, some 3d printing, additive manufacturing. So that’ll give us a nice four-to-five-year continuum between the Junior High and the High School.” Programs such as Little Steamers provide an opportunity for high school students to mentor the youngest learners, while introducing them to problem-based projects, as well as coding and engineering principles.“They just recently did Hour of Code,” expands Communications Coordinator 4 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 06, ISSUE 04
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