A Peoria club opens a tech-filled learning room
A $45,000 Panda Cares Center of Hope at the Grinnell Boys and Girls Club gives kids ages 6 to 18 iPads, laptops, a digital whiteboard, educational VR, and a 3D printer.
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The Boys and Girls Club on Grinnell in Peoria opened a Panda Cares Center of Hope this week, WMBD reported. A $45,000 Project Learn grant paid for the room, which is meant to get students ready for what comes next. It serves ages 6 to 18 with after-school tutoring and mentoring.
Members can use iPads, laptops loaded with Skyward and other school apps, a digital whiteboard, educational VR games, a 3D printer, and a reading corner. Program director Aaron Williams said the space was closed for six months while a classroom was rebuilt. The club won the project through a partnership grant, and Williams hopes a second room can follow at the club's Kansas site.
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The Boys and Girls Club on Grinnell in Peoria, Illinois, opened a new learning room this week. A $45,000 grant from Panda Cares paid for the Panda Cares Center of Hope. Kids ages 6 to 18 can use it after school for tutoring and mentoring. Inside there are iPads, laptops with school apps, a digital whiteboard, educational virtual-reality games, a 3D printer, and a reading corner. Program director Aaron Williams said the room had been closed for six months while it was rebuilt from an old classroom.
- Which tool in that room would help you most with homework?
- Why does an after-school club need more than a gym?
- How is a 3D printer different from drawing the same object on paper?
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