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High Schoolers Teach Robotics to Pre-K Students

High Schoolers Teach Robotics to Pre-K Students

Source: District Administration

The high school students are studying to become childcare professionals

RoboticsStudents at Hialeah Gardens High School in Miami-Dade County use robots to teach preschool coding to kids in the building's child care center.

Educators didn’t expose students to any screen time when introducing preschool coding and robotics in Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ childcare centers this past school year.

Also noteworthy were the teachers themselves: high school students enrolled in the district’s early education academies and studying to become childcare professionals.

“It’s a two for one,” says Cristian Carranza, the district’s executive STEM director. “The high school students are learning coding and programming, and they’re teaching pre-K kids who can then enter our robotics pathways in kindergarten.”

During the year the high schoolers guided the preschool coding students in arranging KinderLab Robotics’ wooden KIBO blocks printed with QR codes for a robot to scan.

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