At the Greeneville City Board of Education meeting, Director of Schools Steve Starnes reported that three Greeneville City Schools Lego Robotics teams qualified for the state competition. Those teams include The Mysterious Lego Society from Tusculum View, The Short Circuits from Greeneville Middle School, and The Greeneville Block Jocks from Hal Henard/Greeneville Middle School.
The teams will compete against 48 other teams throughout Tennessee in the following areas: innovation project, robot design, core values, and robot performance. This is the 8th year a Greeneville City School has qualified for the event. The state tournament will be on the campus of Tennessee Tech in Cookeville on February 10, 2023.
Stearns also updated the board on the Collaborative Conferencing process, which was discussed in the October meeting due to a petition that was presented by the Greeneville Education Association. The executive committee was to appoint between 7 to 11 members to represent the management team. The first Collaborative Conferencing session will be held January 4.
The board approved policy revisions like changing language from ‘he/she to a gender-neutral reference ‘they’.
Also approved was the participation with the James Richardson “Driver Training” Matching Grant from Public Entity Partners, to help ensure the workplace is safe for employees. And the donation of a bus to Greeneville Emergency and Rescue Squad was also approved. The bus is for training purposes and multiple emergency service departments will be able to benefit from it.
