This West Philly School is the First in the District to Bring Robotics Programming to all Grades, including Kindergarten

Andrew Hamilton School students know: Of course LEGOs can be used for learning.

Excited kids and teachers were gathered around wooden LEGO tables during Hamilton’s FIRST LEGO League competition when Technical.ly visited last Wednesday. Twelve teams of students in grades six and seven competed against each other while 12 teams of third and fourth graders constructed displays, showing off what they learned about robotics over the last few months.

Mark Paikoff, digital literacy teacher at Hamilton, said the West Philly school is unique because it’s the first in the School District of Philadelphia to teach robotics in kindergarten through eighth grade via the LEGO robotics unit coordinated with the school’s digital literacy curriculum. The program started at the beginning of this school year, and this competition was a culmination of what the students had learned so far.

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