The College of Education & Human Development’s Center for Learning and Literacy Wolf Pack Bots Robotics Team recently won first place for the Innovation Award at the Northern Nevada FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL) Qualifier. Strong mentorship and hard work pay off as the young Wolf Pack Bots progress to the Northern Nevada FLL Championship on February 4, 2023 in Carson City, Nevada.
Rachel Salas, director of the Center of Learning and Literacy, coaches and leads this program with the help of graduate student mentor Monika Bharti and undergraduate student mentors Nanami Duncan, Vivana Reyes, and Lanielle Pavlik.
Salas sees this program as a way to positively impact the youth, many of whom have been recruited from the Center’s literacy tutoring program. Most team members identify as multilingual, are in grades four through eight and come from different Title 1 schools throughout…