In another part of the lab, Joshua Fitch is working on his design for a vessel to keep an egg from breaking when his teacher throws it off the school’s roof. It should be child’s play for Fitch, who a week earlier entered a swimming robot in a regional competition.
“We got first and second place,” he said.
The hands-on application of technology isn’t restricted to the engineering, chemistry, math or biology classes, it can be seen daily in music and art classrooms where students like 6th-grader Dante Reith composes a samba using Apple’s Garage Band application, or 7th-grader Maliyah Stackhouse uses Adobe Illustrator to render a logo for her Beltzhoover neighborhood from a drawing she’s conceived.
The school’s academic expectations are high, said Director James McCoy, and there have been growing pains in achieving them, and its diversity goals. But when creating a new school from scratch some of that is unavoidable.
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