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Yelm Middle School students showcase robotics club after program cuts
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Yelm Middle School students and their advisor demonstrated robotics projects and described how the club, rebuilt through grants, provides hands-on learning and social connections after the district reduced its former robotics class.
Yelm Middle School students demonstrated robots and described the club that meets weekly during the Yelm School Board meeting on Feb. 13, highlighting a small-program revival after prior curriculum reductions.
The robotics club now meets every Tuesday, is supported by grants and a mix of middle- and high-school volunteers, and drew about 30 middle-school students plus roughly 10 high-school mentors most weeks, advisor Bethany Winterstrom told the board. “I show up and I open the door, and I open the…
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