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Program pairs special education, gifted students
Anastasia Giddens-Merritt and lab partner Kevin Peña watched the robot they had built and programmed try to hurl a ball over a wall.
The throw, however, was a bit short.
"The robot's arm went all the way down and crashed into the floor," said Anastasia, 10, who is in a program for gifted and talented students in the Westbury school district.
So the two went back to their shared...
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