Jayla Bryan-Smith, 7, and Montana Manalo of Americorps, play with an iPad-controlled robotics device at Brentwood School in East Palo Alto, Calif., where students showed off their Makerspace classroom on Monday, May 18, 2015. The classroom is outfitted with laptops and printers donated by Facebook in an initiative to provide students with STEM opportunities. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
EAST PALO ALTO >> Robert Pronovost, the science, technology, engineering and math coordinator at the Ravenswood City School District, has a mission: to spark student interest in those topics by bringing tech-filled “makerspaces” to low-income schools.
Now with the help of Facebook and the Ravenswood Education Foundation, he’s come close to reaching that goal.
By the end of this week, five out of seven of the district’s public schools will have…
