CCPS receives TVA STEM grant for robotics programs
Published 12:20 pm Tuesday, April 2, 2024
- Cullman City Primary School students from Michelle Moody’s and Maeghan Long’s kindergarten classes join community leaders for a grant reception Monday. Standing, from left, are Cullman Mayor Woody Jacobs, Cullman City Schools Superintendent Kyle Kallhoff, TVA STEM Grant Recipient & CCPS STEM Teacher Anna Anderson, TVA representative Jori Chatman, Cullman Power Board CEO Allison Bright and CCPS principal and head Start director Elizabeth Shaddix.
Cullman City Primary School received a grant from TVA to support its Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs this week, which will support robotics project for young learners in Cullman City Schools.
The school received $3,500 from TVA in the form of a grant to fund a project that provides kindergarten, first and second grade students with cross-curricular robotics activities that align with grade level Alabama Math and English Language Arts Standards.
As part of the program, students are provided with cross-curricular, grid-based activities to practice coding skills with the programmable learning robot BlueBot while reinforcing math and language arts concepts like addition, counting money and letter-sound identification. In addition to mastery of Math and ELA Standards, other learning outcomes include understanding and applying STEM vocabulary, basic coding skills and fostering a deeper understanding of problem-solving processes.
“My hope is that students’ proficiency in these areas will be evident and measurable in every classroom setting,” CCPS STEM and math intervention teacher Anna Anderson said of the program.
