Robotics Coach (part-time)

GEO Academies is a national, non-profit network of open-enrollment, public charter schools committed to empowering students to accelerate their academic pathways, advance their social mobility, and achieve their career and lifelong goals. Our innovative and award-winning K-16 GEO Academies Model begins with personalized, competency-based learning and accelerates students into post-secondary immersion as early as 9th grade. GEO Academies students have the opportunity to earn a full college degree or career credential even before graduating from high school - at no cost to families.

About Us:

21st Century Charter School at Gary is a free K-12+ public charter school. We are building a team of excellence. We are the top performing charter school in Gary, Indiana. We are one of the few Indiana schools offering an early college program, which allows our qualifying high school students to take real college courses for real college credit, free of charge to our students and their families. Our curriculum and our teaching methods are designed using Core Knowledge in K-8, Project Lead the Way beginning in middle school, and a blended learning model in middle school through high school. We are a TAP school! Please join us if you are committed to excellence, mission driven, and ready to take 21st Century Charter School @ Gary to uncommonly high levels of achievement! Our teachers cultivate in our students the critical thinking skills they will need to understand how the world around them works and to become leaders and agents of positive change in the world.
REPORTS TO/TERM:
Principal and Administrative Team
This is part time, position
Robotics Coach Duties:
Model how to program and build structurally sound robots and support groups of students in building and
programming their own.
Teach team members the principles of Robotics including the functions of power source, sensors, motors and structural members of a robot.
Document the students' individual and group progress throughout the program.

Requirements

Qualifications:

Expertise in coding (logic, sequence, and structure) to create Games, Animations, Apps, and Websites.
Expertise in hardware to generate creative outcomes.
Must have analytical and troubleshooting thinking.
Current college student or graduate preferred.