Dimensions Academy students know the importance of bringing technology to the classroom.
Dimensions teacher Chris Jones and students Beth Jenoski, 15, and Donovan Clark, 16, represented Norman Public Schools Feb. 18 at the State Capitol in Oklahoma City for the State Superintendent's Tech Day. Jones, Jenoski and Clark joined those from 10 other Oklahoma school districts to show ways that technology is used in the classroom.
Jones said his students demonstrated a robot that was built during class time. Altogether, eight students each had a role in the robot's completion, whether it was keeping a journal, building the mechanism or programming the device.
The journals and pictures showed the evolution of progress, he said. The class was given six weeks to assemble and program the robot.
"I'm proud of what we've accomplished," Jones said.
He said each person learned it takes trial and error to find what variables and solutions work.
Jenoski said she and Clark were able to describe the robot to the audience and display its abilities.
"We got to show people a lot of what the programs do," she said.
Clark said he was surprised with the crowds of people that were interested in the robot.
"It was pretty cool," he said. "They wanted to see how it works."
The teenager himself is a fan of robots.
"I think it's cool to have something that's not human being able to do the same things we can do," he said.
Meghan McCormick
366-3539
mmccormick@normantranscript.com
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