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Relaunching the robotics teams at the West Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind is about to get a boost.
The NASA Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) Program’s Education Resource Center (ERC) will welcome students from the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf & Blind (WVSDB) this weekend as part of a kickoff in support of students’ new competitive robotics, rocketry, and aerial drone teams.
WVSDB students and their new STEM coaches will visit the Katherine Johnson Facility in Fairmont Saturday for a series of hands-on workshops where they will build and launch model rockets, assemble and program robots, and learn to pilot and program aerial drones.
“The NASA ERC has a long tradition of supporting robotics teams at the WVSDB, but sadly, many after-school initiatives were another casualty of the COVID-19 crisis,” said NASA ERC Program Manager Dr. Todd Ensign in a press release. “We are excited to be collaborating with WVSDB Superintendent W. Clayton Burch and the new coaches to not only restart, but also to expand competitive STEM opportunities for their students.”
