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AT&T Partners With Sheriff’s Office To Present STEM Kits To Students
BY MONIQUE STAMPS Sentinel Staff Writer
Last Friday, May 6, 2022, AT&T and the Hillsborough County Sher- iff’s Office (HCSO) partnered to provide STEM kits to elementary school students. The event took place at Town and Country Elemen- tary School.
These kits will be used to teach students the foundation of robotics, computer programming and en- courage their creativity. All kits con- tain a programmable robot, QR codes, graph paper, special mark- ers, school supplies, circuits and batteries for the robot. The students will use the kits to build the pro- gramming for their robots.
AT&T’s volunteer arm, AT&T Pi- oneers, collected STEM materials from across the country. AT&T Pio- neers is a network of employee vol- unteers who effect immediate, tangible change in local communi- ties.
AT&T Pioneers chose to supply the Tampa Police Department (TPD) and the HSCO with STEM kits to give to students in Tampa. Each entity then selected the pro- gram to receive the donated kits.
TPD gave its kits out to the Rich House in Sulphur Springs in De-
PRINCIPAL OTIS KITCHEN
cember 2021.
HSCO representatives and the
AT&T team along with partners from Town and Country Elemen- tary School attended the event. Otis Kitchen is the principal at Town and Country Elementary, a science magnet school.
Ed Narain, the VP of External & Legislative Affairs, states, “It is a personal mission of mine, working
Chad Diskin, Manager, FirstNet, Edwin Narain, Vice President of External & Leg- islative Affairs, AT&T, Otis Kitchen, Principal, Town & Country Elementary School, Colonel Melisa Moore, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, and Matt Mucci, Regional Director, AT&T.
at a telecommunications and tech- nology company. We want to make sure that we are exposing children to the tools needed for science, technology, engineering, the arts,
and mathematics careers. Soon, people will have jobs that require knowledge in these fields. It is im- portant to give kids a solid founda- tion to compete in a global market.”
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