Robots and recess: Alabama elementary schools are cracking the code on STEM

Kitty Stone Elementary School is preparing its students for the future, one robot at a time. The Jacksonville school provides a unique learning experience to its students thanks to the Alabama Power Foundation. Years of support from the foundation and others has enabled Kitty Stone to provide unique STEM learning focused on coding and robotics kits. The kits allow students to build robots and then program them once they’ve built them, said Rhonda Tinker, principal of Kitty Stone’s pre-K to third grade. Over the past couple of years, we’ve been able to buy extension kits so that there are more parts, and it gives the children the opportunity to use their creativity and build their own kind of robot. The children really enjoy that, and it stretches their critical thinking.