NM: I love it. I've been here two years and I don't want to leave either.

The school is doing well, technology-wise, as of this year. The BIA had a momentary lapse and funded a bunch of upgrades; I hope they don't lose interest again before we're done. Fingers crossed, ehehhe.

And the students ...

If you have a blog/homepage of your experience, I love to read it. What you've described seem impossibly difficult for 4-8th graders where learning is done through hands on experience, step by step. It is quite challenging even for college students.
Bill

The 3rd-8th graders will declare their ...

And...to restart the subject again:

I am in my first year of teaching robotics to grade schoolers, 4th-8th. I was asked to do this because the school found a large amount of grant money that it wanted to spend, and the school I do IT work for has never had any kind of technology program before.

My ...

I learned BASIC (and my entire profession, eventually) on an Apple II+ starting in 1980 (tested out of Algebra to get the computer lab to myself one hour a day). Been hooked ever since, even though I never learned much about the hardware until fairly recently.

About 1997 I was give 13 Apple IIe's ...