Milo connects with special needs students in Charleroi
By TAYLOR BROWN
tbrown@yourmvi.com
The Charleroi Area Elementary Center welcomed a new “student” this year, but he doesn’t eat lunch or ride the bus.
Milo, a 22-inch, wide-eyed, walking, talking doll-like robot, stays in the classroom where he spends time each day teaching his “friends” how to get along in the world and develop their social skills.
Designed by RoboKind, a Texas-based robotics company, he is the newest teaching tool in technology used help children with autism or other special education needs learn to express empathy, self-motivate and navigate social situations.
He arrived in the district earlier this year, thanks to $16,200 from the Charleroi Area School District Education Foundation.
While he cost about $5,000, the CASDEF found him so interesting and necessary to students that they committed three years to the initiative and plan to fundraise to make sure he has a permanent home as a Cougar.
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