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Robotics team requests district-wide program
By Chantal Lamers
Six members from Broadway High School's robotics team on Jan. 27 asked San Jose Unified School District board members to budget $86,000 for funding 59 robotics teams throughout the district.
Students created the proposal because about 100 Broadway students will have to choose a new high school before their campus transitions to the John Muir site. But some robotics team members don't want to leave Broadway until they know which schools will sponsor a team.
"We don't want to change schools until we know there will be a robotics team next year," said Brenden Collins, a BHS sophomore. "There should be teams at every high school."
Collins told the board he has friends at Pioneer High School who want to be on the robotics team so badly that they joke about cutting school so they can get sent to BHS.
This proposal came after a 30-minute presentation by the Los Alamitos Elementary robotics team, wherein about two dozen students told board members what a positive effect the program has had on their lives.
According to the written proposal, the budget would affect about 1,000 students per year for less than the cost of one basketball program at one school.
BHS senior Sarah Thornhill, who helped jump-start the Los Alamitos Elementary robotics team and was offered an internship at NASA, told the board the team has made her realize that careers in science and technology are not beyond her reach.
Board president Jorge Gonzalez thanked the team and assured them proposal wouldn't be discarded.
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