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Saint Dominic School Expands STEM Program!
Everywhere you look, another mention is being made of the importance of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in education in order for students to be successful in the 21stCentury. STEM education creates critical thinkers, increases science literacy, and enables the next generation of innovators. In order to enhance our STEM curriculum, Saint Dominic School recently purchased a 58-cm tall humanoid robot named NAO (pronounced “now”) from Aldebaran Robotics.

Everywhere you look, another mention is being made of the importance of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in education in order for students to be successful in the 21stCentury. STEM education creates critical thinkers, increases science literacy, and enables the next generation of innovators. In order to enhance our STEM curriculum, Saint Dominic School recently purchased a 58-cm tall humanoid robot named NAO (pronounced “now”) from Aldebaran Robotics.

NAO has a unique combination of hardware, software, sensors and motors, which enable him to move, talk, listen, and recognize faces. In addition, NAO has a wide array of movement and behavior libraries which are available through its graphic programming interface, known as Choregraphe. This allows students to create elaborate behaviors, to access the data acquired by the sensors, and to control the robot.

Saint Dominic School plans to teach the basic elements of computer programming and robotics to fifth through eighth grades, leading up to the students writing and executing several programs with NAO. Our younger students will also interact with NAO, either through his unique, built-in personality or by posing him in a variety of stances and then using his software to animate his movements.

NAO is truly a remarkable addition to our school and we are very fortunate to have such an advanced tool available to our students!