The visit was coordinated in partnership with Anne Hoffman, Career Technical Education-Career Development Coach and Derick Norris, Robotics 2 class teacher, of Salisbury High School and led by Catawba’s Educational Technology team, including Amanda Bosch, Director of Digital Pedagogy and Scholarship, and Zach Trivett, Library Instructional Technologist with support from Extended Reality Specialists Tyler Grant and Katie Bosch. Several Catawba students helped lead the sessions including Bianca Guerrero, John Turner, and Kami Christiana.
During their visit, students:
- Participated in a Dreamscape Learn immersive lesson.
- Coded Sphero robots for “robot golf,” including troubleshooting and repairing intentionally “broken” python code designed as a learning challenge.
- Met “Misty,” a programmable robot enhanced last spring by a Catawba computer science intern using Python and AI to autonomously greet visitors to the DLL.
Students were divided into two groups—one engaging in Dreamscape Learn while the other completed interactive coding and robotics activities in the lab. The groups switched to ensure every student experienced each opportunity. The day concluded with a campus tour led by the Office of Admissions.
