We were fortunate to receive last year the OSPI iGrant 769 Computer Science in Education, and its follow-up this school year iGrant 777,and for three years now, the iGrant 605 for FTC Robotics. We have also had suppoert form or local community and from Georgia Pacific at Wauna. These helped us to purchase equipment and to prepare lessons and to train staff. Also, this fall we received a Community Giving grant from Weyerhaeuser. Essentially, we are bringing CS to elementary students and staff using a HS-elem tutor model. At K and first, the HS kids bring robots to the elementary classrooms to work with their young mentees. At second through fifth, the robots stay with the elementary kids and the HS kids will visit to mentor them. At fourth and fifth, the HS kids mentor the elementary kids in using Scratch to prepare responses to assignments in any subject. At middle school these grants support Science in robotics. At high school they support Scratch, Robotics and Computer Science with Raspberry Pi and Tello Drone hardware. We have outside guest speakers, many from our N7WAH Wahkiakum Amateur Radio Club. We take several field trips where robotics and coding are used in industry.
Links:
Story in Wahkiakum Eagle after our first training:
http://www.waheagle.com/story/2018/03/15/wahkiakum-people/mentors-for-robotics/14282.html
Story in Wahkiakum Eagle about WWW:
http://www.waheagle.com/story/2018/03/22/news/robots-rule-at-the-high-school/14298.html
Story in Wahkiakum Eagle about our students visiting local seniors:
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