Pisgah High School science and robotics teacher Gus Hembree observes as juniors Noah Venable, Austin Tidwell and Silena Moss watch their robot cruise the hallway using programming the group just installed.PISGAH, Ala. – There’s a new robotics class at Pisgah High School in Jackson County, Ala., where education is sprouting wheels and whirring along the halls.
Junior LaShauna McBride didn’t even know she was in the fledgling robotics class until she got her schedule; now she’s considering a technical career.
“Once I got into it, I liked it, and I think it’ll help me a lot in the future,” said LaShauna, 16, who was working with her project teammates Friday to program one of the small robots the school got for the class.
“Yesterday we had to program it so that when it hits something, it automatically backs up,” she said. “That’s pretty hard.”
Science and robotics teacher Gus Hembree says he doesn’t help too much because his technically savvy students learn better if they track down most of the information they need on their own.