December 2017 School Board Recognition

Robotics Presentation

Students from Eastside Elementary, Southside Elementary, Ward Central Elementary, Cabot Middle School South, and Cabot High School presented robotic demonstrations for our school board members.

Cabot School District's technology and curriculum departments have teamed up to provide robotics instruction for students in grades K-12.​ Our students begin learning about robotics in Kindergarten. This instruction takes place in technology lab, a class every student in grades K-6 attends. Students learn how robots run commands in sequence and how to interact with them using markers and Chromebooks.

The secondary schools offer robotics in makerspaces, clubs, and select classes. At the high school level the robotics are no longer pre-packaged. Students must design, assemble, and program from scratch.

In May, Governor Asa Hutchinson visited Cabot High School as part of his Computer Science Coding Tour where he spoke to 1,500 10th and 11th grade students. Last year, Cabot High School had one computer science class with 33 students. This year, CHS has nine classes and 167 students studying computer science.

Outstanding Board Member Award

Dr. Thurman also recognized Cabot School Board Vice President Sarah Owen for recieivng an Outstanding Board Member award from the Arkansas School Board Association. Board members who earn at least 25 hours of training are recognized as Outstanding Board members.

As we head into the new year, our students will be delving even more into the world of robotics and coding. Here is Alayna showing @DrTCabot and school board member Mrs. Nash her code-a-pillar. @EastsideCabot @csd_td pic.twitter.com/sIkOsSmIIA

— Cabot Public Schools (@cabotsd) January 1, 2018

Know what an ozobot is? These @Cabot_Southside students do and recently demonstrated their robot to school board members. pic.twitter.com/GZIt6qdDfa

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Abby @CentralWard having fun introducing Dot and Dash to @DrTCabot at our last school board meeting. Hear what the robot had to say about Dr. Thurman! pic.twitter.com/9p7vl8pkat

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"Finch" being introduced at a school board meeting by a @CMSSouth student. Robotics is taught to students in K-12 in our district. pic.twitter.com/BDhzyBMPWc

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@CabotHigh students demonstrating their robotic horse to school board members. They also had the opportunity to show their robots off to Governor @AsaHutchinson last May. pic.twitter.com/7IO229CSmH

— Cabot Public Schools (@cabotsd) January 1, 2018