Published April 14. 2022 02:45PM
Piper Harding coded a tiny robot so that it could make its way around a printed maze.
To do so, she needed to consider the robot’s time, direction and speed.
“I think it is really cool,” said Harding, 11, a fifth-grade Tamaqua Elementary School student and a member of the SHINE After-School Program at Lehigh Carbon Community College’s Morgan Campus in Tamaqua.
On Wednesday, the college celebrated the opening of its STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) Makerspace creative learning classroom. Attendees toured the classroom and talked to SHINE students like Harding who were working on projects.
Plans are to use the makerspace as a collaborative hub for LCCC’s Teacher Education Program, an area…