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RAMP program teaches engineering from a distance
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Gainesville High sophomore Ivan Gonzalez works with a programmable logic control trainer during a RAMP program in robotics Thursday afternoon. The class is remote learning with the instructor located at Moultrie Technical College in South Georgia. The instructor can view the students work through a camera mounted on the ceiling of the class.
Four students from Gainesville High School sit in front of a screen in the old auto mechanics lab along with dozens of other students working on computers. But these four young men sit along a back wall, isolated from the others. They are working at four stations, each with a PLC computer, a headset and a mechatronic platform.