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Second-grader Audreigh Holden-Lager, 8, participates in a hands-on STEM activity at Spring Cove Elementary School.
Robotic bugs are creating a buzz in teaching young children STEM skills.
Bee-Bots, small robots that teach children coding and computational thinking, are helping younger students practice addition and subtraction and other critical skills.
Students have to plan out moves forward, backward, left and right required to move the Bee to a specific location.
Preschoolers, like students in grades K-2, are being introduced to Bee-Bots.
“Although it’s super basic coding, it’s getting kids thinking in the mindset of ‘if I do X, Y and Z, it’ll make this robot work, ” Appalachia Intermediate Unit 8, STEM Curriculum Specialist Sarah Brambley said.