(TNS) — Amazon has awarded West Decatur Elementary and teacher Regan Posey one of 10 national grants in honor of her teaching efforts, and she hopes the STEM lab the money will build teaches the school’s students more about robotics and computer science.
Amazon announced Tuesday that Posey had been selected as an Amazon Future Engineer Teachers of the Year and awarded the school $25,000 and her $5,000. Posey said the STEM lab will be for all grades in West Decatur, even students in pre-K where teachers will build special lesson plans for them.
“We want to do everything from a makerspace cart, which is more like manipulative Legos … all the way to robots and drones and things that they can really code and use their computer skills on,” Posey said. “All of our students can benefit from this.”
Posey said the idea of…
