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    Robotics class lets 8th graders earn high school credit and aims to accelerate pandemic learning recovery

    by Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune Jan 18, 2023 4 minutes
    Filip Dudic, an applied technologies teacher at MacArthur Middle School in Prospect Heights, interacts with eighth graders during a robotics class on Jan. 11, 2023.

    PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Ill. — A new, dual-credit robotics class for eighth graders at Douglas MacArthur Middle School is allowing students to dive deep into engineering and other STEM fields while addressing the issue of pandemic learning loss.

    While the first semester of the inaugural class focused on Lego robotics, the second leg of the 2022-23 school year will teach students to design, build and program a robot. Students also earn high school credit for it as part of a partnership between elementary school District 23 and High School District 214. The partnership started as a joint extracurricular robotics club where students from the feeder schools could participate at the high school level.

    According to District 23 Superintendent Don

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