NeighborPlus: Community news for April 1, 2011
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Making robots go
G.W. Carver Academy hosted Waco ISD elementary school students March 19 for its annual Robotics Roundup. Students learned ways that Carver students use robots as a part of their curriculum and how robots are used in various career fields.
Christy Berg, Carver’s techno-logy facilitator; Jim Heston, Carver’s instructional specialist; and teachers Mary Evans and Tichelle Calvin taught students to build and program Lego Mindstorm robots. Carver received these robots through grants by the Waco ISD Education Foundation.
“We got to build robots and make them compete against each other,” said Will Heston, a Hillcrest PDS fourth-grader. “We had to do some math to get them to do the right thing and even talk to us. I liked all of it.”
Student attendees received a Carver robotics T-shirt and a Lego minifigure as gifts.
Carver sixth-grader Jazmyne Betters, one of the Carver Geek Squad, was on hand to tutor the younger students in the use of the robots. The Carver Geek Squad not only leads Carver in robotics education, but it lends technical support to the campus when needed.
Jim Heston photos
TOP: Carver Academy math teacher Mary Evans (left) helps Juan Aguirre build a Lego Mindstorm robot as Candy Aguirre watches.
RIGHT: Carlis Calvin (left) and Will Heston watch their robotic vehicles move across the carpet during G.W. Carver Academy’s annual Robotics Roundup.
Digging in for beauty
BELOW: Misty Williams, director of nursing at Bluebonnet Health Services, carries a shovelful of mulch to a bed during work to make a bluebonnet garden at the Carleen Bright Arboretum in Woodway. About 60 Baylor University pre-med students joined in the project of creating a bluebonnet garden in honor of Bluebonnet Health Services hospice patients and their families.
ABOVE: The Baylor students walk past the freshly planted garden.
Staff photos — Rod Aydelotte
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