Some young students in Albemarle County will have the chance to put their scientific minds to the test this week. Free Union Country School is offering an after school engineering program for the first time.
First, second and third graders will meet once a week to learn how to apply science to their everyday lives in addition to becoming better problem solvers.
Free Union Country School interim headmaster Howard Miller said, "We just want to get them interested at a very early age that some of these challenges, some of these activities that look exciting to them are something that they actually can have access to."
More than a dozen kids have already signed up for the program. They will start with Legos and eventually graduate to learning how to build and use robots and simple machines.
