New courses will be offered to Lincoln Junior High School students next school year.
Plymouth Community School Superintendent Andy Hartley said new and renamed courses will be offered as part of an opportunity for students to experience Career Technical Education programs prior to reaching high school.
Hartley stated, “Some of those include some STEM classes called Gaming and Computer Science, as well as Engineering and Technology and a Robotics class. They’re also renaming some art courses to be Fundamentals of Art as well as Sculpture Studio, adding a Radio and Podcasting class, a Digital Storm TV Production class and creating a new class called Creative Dramatics.”
An Esports program will also be a unique offering to students.
Hartley added, “That’ll be an extra-curricular program that we’re just going to kind of run through a trial phase here this Spring with some kids and treat it like an extra-curricular program. Kids will have an opportunity to compete in some video gaming through an organization. It will be supervised and on a schedule, but also have kids who maybe aren’t connected with a school program be connected with a school program. They’ll have the same eligibility requirements that we have with extra-curricular activities. We’re excited to see how that will take off at Lincoln Junior High.”
The school board officially unanimously approved those courses during their meeting Tuesday night.
