Public commenter urges St. Charles Parish board to expand robotics support after team wins leadership award

At the St. Charles Parish School Board meeting a public commenter, identified in the record as JB Aaid, urged the board to expand support for school robotics after the team won a Leadership Excellence Award at a recent tournament in Oklahoma.

"The team won what's called the leadership excellence award," JB Aaid told the board, describing the team’s performance and the district’s recent investments such as a new perimeter that functions as a practice court for robots.

Aaid framed robotics as applied STEM work and encouraged the district to consider ongoing support through extracurricular funding and future budget cycles so students can pursue engineering and automation pathways. He asked the superintendent and district staff to follow up with information about robotics programming at both high schools.

Board members thanked the commenter and suggested administration meet with the team and parent representatives to provide programmatic details; the superintendent's office offered to follow up after the meeting. The comment was recorded during the public-comment period on accounts-payable/consent-agenda items, and the board thanked Aaid for the remarks.