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Re: Need some advice: Annual down times

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Originally Posted by SuperNerd256 View Post
How is the class working for your district? What do you do in the offseason?

I've been trying to implement this since 8th grade. Do you have any advice on how to get it as a class?
Carnegie Mellon, Intelitek, Autodesk, Project Lead the Way, and Analytical Integrated Math all have commercially available educational curriculums with robotics based emphasis. Using an off the shelf curriculum is the easiest way to implement one and they are not terribly expensive. Teachers should be able to find an educational grant to fund purchasing one of these programs.

The team, through one of our alums and Dean's List winner and a retired faculty member, are working towards implementing one of these programs in our school district as an honors level independent study. The idea is that our team will run the program during the off season at our meetings. The district is planning to remodel our two high schools in a few years. At that point we hope to help the district take our independent study program and turn it into a pre-engineering classroom curriculum.
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