The Powell Vendetta Motorcycle Club gave backpacks, school supplies and other help to Claxton, Lake City and North Clinton elementary schools.
The club hosts a ride party to raise money for backpacks and school supplies for children in grades kindergarten through fifth at Claxton Elementary School, usually enough for 10 children in each grade: five girls and five boys.
“We just know that times are hard for people,” club Ppresident Robert Arwood told The Courier News. “It’s embarrassing for kids if they ain’t got what they need.”
This year the ride took place on Saturday July 11. It started at Biker Rags in South Clinton.
Participants rode through Clinton into Rocky Top, turning at Weigel’s and riding across Norris Dam.
Tracy Burton, technology instructor at Clinton Elementary School, says the BeeBots purchased by Oak Ridge Associated Universities will help students build foundational STEM skills through play-based learning. - Submitted
Students at Clinton Elementary School will learn coding through a new robotic classroom tool: Bee-Bots.
They came thanks to a donation from Oak Ridge Associated Universities. Tracy Burton, technology instructor at Clinton Elementary School, said the Bee-Bots will help students build foundational science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills through play-based learning. They’re small robots, resembling cartoon bees that students can program
Burton said she received the Bee-Bots over the summer and some of her older coding students had already been using them.
She plans to use them throughout the school’s kindergarten through sixth grade Technology/Makerspace program. Students will begin with basic coding commands in kindergarten, and the challenges will become more complex as they move through the grades.
