This Marquez Student Robotic team topped the competition.
Marquez Charter School fourth and fifth graders lost nearly everything when the January 7 Palisades Fire Destroyed homes. On January 8, the school burned. The students had been working on a robotic machine “Hole in One” since the beginning of the school year, but it too, burned in the fire.
These students like so many Palisadieans were displaced to hotels, B & B’s, apartments and other family members’ homes.
The Los Angeles School District did a quick pivot and moved all 312 Marquez Elementary students to Nora Sterry Elementary in West L.A., where there were some empty classrooms.
The teacher gave them the choice and they decided to rebuild – and make their entry better – and they did. The students were featured on CNN click here.
Sue,
Nora Sterry is an amazing hero of the 1924 Los Angeles pneumonic plague episode. She deserves a far wider recognition that she has. Among her lesser efforts as principal at Macy Street elementary was to get them LAPL branch status. Her major effort was that she was able to supply the surrounding community needs from school supplies for the period when the people were held in quarantine; her flag raising when she was able to first enter the affected area, a banner in itself of human courage.
On a second note, I am still awaiting a reply from nhm on resistant plants. I’m volunteering there tomorrow and will try a one-on-one approach.