Hope IT is thrilled to see 6 students at our Robotic course this month, see the above picture.
Here’s a glimpse of the students.
- They are all from the Door of Hope. (All students in our Saturday courses last school year were also from the Door of Hope, so you can see a strong partnership here.)
- The ages range from 12 to 19 at the start of the course. (2 students celebrated birthdays on the next Sunday after we started.)
- We have 5 boys/young men, and 1 girl.
- 4 are still in middle/high school, and one is in college, and another is deciding next steps.
- What is great to see is, the students are helping each other, taking turns, as they work in pairs. They wired up a circuit to make an LED light up, then added a button to enable turning the light on and off. The exercise gives them basic familiarity, comfort and intuition with electrical circuits.
- In Week 2, we added programming to make these LED lights flash.
- We also have one high school volunteer, assisting others to learn. With the large course, we needed the help!
Hope IT is grateful for our partner and friends at Pasadena-based Barnabas Robotics, which creates Robotic kits and classes for all ages of kids; we purchase our Robotic kits from them. We appreciate their team and work, and benefit from their knowledge.
We look forward to the rest of this month to finish up this Robotics course. It is just fun!
God bless.
Peace,
–Mike Veerman
Hope IT team lead