Play time or engineering?
That could easily be the question asked of the High School Science X class offered every other day this school year. Dr.
and Mrs. David Perloff, working through the Maine Community Foundation Fast-track Grants program provided Holly Rodgers with 15 LEGO Robot kits
to use as the foundation of her Science X curriculum. As part of the grant, Ms. Rodgers' HS students are peer coaches for Mrs. Small's 7th
grade science students who are now engaged in creating and programming these high tech "toys." The older students have had to learn to build the machines and program them to perform certain functions. Now, working every other day with the MS students, the HS students are teaching the younger students to build and design robots. Later in the spring, parents and community will be invited in to see an exhibit of these "tiny
mechanical creatures" and their designers.
That could easily be the question asked of the High School Science X class offered every other day this school year. Dr.
and Mrs. David Perloff, working through the Maine Community Foundation Fast-track Grants program provided Holly Rodgers with 15 LEGO Robot kits
to use as the foundation of her Science X curriculum. As part of the grant, Ms. Rodgers' HS students are peer coaches for Mrs. Small's 7th
grade science students who are now engaged in creating and programming these high tech "toys." The older students have had to learn to build the machines and program them to perform certain functions. Now, working every other day with the MS students, the HS students are teaching the younger students to build and design robots. Later in the spring, parents and community will be invited in to see an exhibit of these "tiny
mechanical creatures" and their designers.
