Whoooo-hooooo! I believe I can fly.....the grant proposal was accepted and awarded! Thank you AUSVI Pathfinder Organization. I also want to thank Sci-Quest, the ARF (Autism Resource Foundation), Coach Wallace Willard of the Montessori School of Huntsville (for his generous donation and believing in us) and I want to give a special thanks to Jane Veverke for her input into our Social Skills curriculum and volunteering her time.
Now we are off to a running start........
After a week of working on other commitments and brainstorming, I gave a presentation to the Autism Resource Foundation about First Lego League and how we plan on implementing the Social Skills . I took along a Robot my son and I had constructed together. This is what it looked like....
I think the presentation went well because I saw a lot of smiles and nods when I presented the social skills ideas. The only regret was, the ARF wished that I could have done a Jr. FLL as well. Let's see how we fly this year and work out some of the programming bugs, then we will think about adding more.
First, I want to request a tour from Alabama Robotics Technology Park to get the kids excited about robotics. I would also like to take the kids to some robotic competitions to see what it is all about.
Next week we will be ordering Lego Mindstorms Kits and other supplies needed. Sci-Quest has generously offered help in getting a table and I already have a mat with puzzle pieces on it from the FLL Puzzle Power Challenge of 2007.
We are almost at lift off....
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