Construction Queen Kristina Benza is Blazing a Trail with STEM Career

Construction Queen Kristina Benza is Blazing a Trail with STEM Career

STORY AND PHOTOS BY JANIE ROSMAN Her difficult junior high AP calculus class and teacher proved valuable years later. “He gave us test problems we’d never seen before with the philosophy ‘you’re taking notes in class and gathering tools needed to solve a problem,’” Kristina Benza said. That lesson stayed with her, and today the […]

Interactive Robot Helps Student Participate in Class

Interactive Robot Helps Student Participate in Class

BY JANIE ROSMAN For most students, part of their fun at school comes from socializing with friends in class. Since March, Vincent Forzono has been interacting with his peers at James A. Farley Elementary School via a VGo — a virtual student presence that sat in his place in class so he could talk, listen, […]