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King-Robinson STEM teacher Jonathan Hill, with seventh grader Thomas: “They solve their own problems in here.”
Eighth grader — and budding engineer — Nevaeh James building her hydraulic system.
As her hands worked deftly on a new in-classroom engineering project, King-Robinson eighth grader Nevaeh James glanced back and forth between a basic model of a hydraulic system and her own build — which she had designed to be bigger and with an additional moving claw.
James undertook that work on Friday at King-Robinson Inter-District Magnet School at 150 Fournier St., a day after students concluded a week of state assessments.
This reporter recently visited second and eighth grade STEM classes at the Beaver Hills school, where students used their hands to build everything from Lego replicas of the Windsor Castle to models of
