Our district is located in rural North Carolina in a farming community. Our county seat is Hertford. It's a beautiful little town situated on the Perquimans River. We do not have large industries in our area. The school district is the county's largest employer. Many of our residents work out of county or in the Hampton Roads area.
What we do have is an amazing community that pulls together to help ensure our students still have
access to resources to help teach them what they need to be successful adults. One of those people is our CTE Director. She is constantly seeking grants to put resources and people in our schools to move our students forward. We have a middle school Biotech teacher who helps to run our working greenhouse, a STEM teacher who is teaching students coding, how to use the 3D printer and so much more. One grant that our school was awarded was used to purchase
Rokenbok kits
Rokenboks are like Legos and K'nex on steroids. You can build moving objects and use
Rokenbok's version of the Arduino- ROKduinos - to program the blocks to move and perform tasks. It's where design and engineering meet technology.
For this activity I worked with our CTE Department and 6th grade teachers to bring in students to
complete a set of engineering challenges. Students had to build and create various objects. The final project was to use the remote control car kit to design something that would move.
Students were placed in teams and given the various challenges. The teams earned points by completing the tasks quickly and accurately. The event lasted 2 hours and was filled with laughter and a little competition among teams.
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