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Columbus Elementary highlights robotics and coding program; seven staff earn tenure
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At a New Rochelle Board of Education meeting at Columbus Elementary, principal Michael Galland and teachers presented a new robotics-and-coding program supported by Mercy University and the Wipro Education Fellowship; the board also recognized seven staff who received tenure.
Columbus Elementary Principal Michael Galland told the New Rochelle Board of Education that the school has begun integrating robotics and coding into classroom instruction and is hosting family nights to demonstrate the work.
The presentation, given during the district's public session, described a Wipro Education Fellowship partnership with Mercy University that supports a teacher-led program called "coding to learn," which the school says is active in roughly 10 classrooms. "We are now a WIPPRO partner school," Galland said, adding that students and families…
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