Cantor Family Grant: On Your Marks, Get VEX, GO!
- School Year: 2024-2025
- Applicants: Kathy Hardesty, Lead Applicant & Sarah Ayoub, Heather Barratt, Sharon Courneen
- School: Smith
- Subjects: STEAM
On Your Marks, Get VEX, GO! will allow fifth grade students at Smith STEM to show what they know with VEX GO! Students will work in small groups to build and code robots during a 10 week period, culminating with a grade level competition. VEX GO is a construction system that teaches the fundamentals of STEM through fun, hands-on activities that help young students perceive coding and engineering in a fun and positive way! This program will give students confidence to continue coding in middle school using the VEX IQ platform, the next step in the VEX robotics platform, which is currently offered to middle school students.