Athletic Coach stipends for Teachers

[Steven Smith]

Very cool!

I just found out a couple weeks ago that in Dallas ISD, they will also be implementing a stipend for our teachers of any robotics program. It is $4k per teacher and up to $8K per school (which can be split among multiple teachers).

One other big thing for us is that the "coaches" of other sports get the security code and access to the school at odd hours, and now the robotics coaches will get the same treatment.

Good to see it is catching on elsewhere

[John Retkowski]

Originally Posted by Steven Smith

Very cool!

One other big thing for us is that the "coaches" of other sports get the security code and access to the school at odd hours, and now the robotics coaches will get the same treatment.

Let's hear it for 2 am build sessions!

[GeeTwo]

Excellent news! Thank you, Wendy, for leading this charge. While it's really good news for the current coaches, it will really help the teams in sustainability. We have never been able to get a second teacher to buy in to helping more than occasionally, so that when the current coach does leave, it becomes a real challenge to keep the support of the school. I have forwarded your post to Jesse (head coach) and our mentors.

We have been doing things at Slidell to improve support from our local admnistration, as well. We now have a dedicated build space! It's a 20' x 30' portable, smaller than the room we were building in before, but now we get to leave the project on the workbench from one session to the other. Building in a classroom meant that every tool and part had to be stowed and retrieved each build session. This should add about at least a dozen hours to our build time even if we are there the same amount of time over build season.