001and conversation. So, um, special thanks to them. I do have a timeline, uh, that I printed out just to give you an idea of the different steps that you can look at as they present. Um, and I think Alan's trying to get them set up now. And look at that timing. >> All right, floor is yours. >> Okay. Um, well, thanks for letting us do this. Thanks for having us. Um the timeline that you have just received definitely reviews um the work that Todd alluded to um that we have done as a high school staff to kind of ready ourselves for how is the best way to use these funds. Um and then Al if you could click on the next. So, we we started by looking at some other area high schools that have
002automation and robotics, programs that have had success and programs that are preparing students to enter the workforce, programs that are preparing students to maybe enter even like a 4-year uh college program, something with a focus on engineering and automation. Um, and so we did some of these visits. We started with Amitrol, which is a a product that um h is being used in some in some schools within Northeast Ohio, I'd say, not necessarily here in Lake County. Um and then we went to some of our business partners, some of our industry partners. We went to an event that AWT held where it was manufacturers from all over Lake County in the room and Ben and I walked table to table and we're like, "Do you use this? Do you use this?" and really wanted to
003get to know if this was something that they would find valuable. Um, because we want to make sure that whatever we do align. Um, and the answer was kind of like not really. So, so we we backpedalled a little bit, looked at some other options, um, went to some other schools, looked at Lauren Community College is leading the way in terms of this robotics they've got. um amazing amazing partnerships with um it's not UR what is like Fanic Fanic robots which are widely used in industry um some of the backend work on getting a Fanic lab set up is just a little bit beyond our scope here at a high school setting so we opted for uh to partner with ATC and we're going to go with these universal robots um Ben is going to
004talk more about those and the extensive research that he's done and the work that he's doing to get ready for that for the 206 627 school year, but one of the coolest thing that has come out of this journey that um I don't know if it's represented on your timeline or not, but we are um we're really trying to align ourselves with not only industry demands, but we're trying to align ourselves with what does higher ed expect or what can we them to go step into some sort of higher ed program. So Lake Yuri College actually met with ATC last week um about purchasing universal robots that would kind of keep the process going. Uh so a student who is in Perry who has done our program who's looking to do something beyond the high
005school something to study maybe in engineering and automation at the college level. Um you know Lake Erie College is going to be set up and equipped for that which is a pretty cool a pretty cool next step for some of our students. um the courses that we'll taught that we're going to teach here at the high school that Ben go into more detail too, but those will be college level college credit courses um that students would get that CCP credit for. So um we have industry partners. We've looked at uh collaborations with we sent out a survey through a AWT. Um we had a lot of interest from places like Sagelock, buyers, um places like G&T Manufacturing. We actually have an intern this semester going to G&T manufacturing and her focus is going to be
006robotics and automation. So we really feel like we're kind of setting the stage here at 2425 to be ready for 26 or 25 26 to be ready for 2627 school year when this launches. So um I'll let Ben talk about the actual robots not live. Thank you for having us here. Um, okay. So, I want to start with why we chose Universal Robots. Um, the main priority that I wanted to focus was the kids. Um, Rita kind of hit on it. Fanic wasn't something that we really saw as serviceable for a high school student, especially if you want to get a high school student in there, uh, early in their career. So, we chose universal robots because day one they can have their hands on the robots and the implementation itself. Uh, they brought in
007an arm to us. What was that? Like maybe last year. Um, put my hands on it and within five minutes I have the robot they call way points. Uh, you pretty much move it, set a point, move it, set a point and then keep on doing as much as you want and it will do it. That's very entry level. From there, you can take it into algorithms. Uh, you can do black coding all the way up into Python. So, it's kind of build it and have them do it. that you can set at any level that you want. Oh, go back out. >> Thank you. Um, okay. And the real world experience um that Rita was kind of alluding to there. So, the students will primarily do the core training that is offered with UR.
008Um, I'll be certified in it. They come and they'll do a three-day training with me. So, then I can certify the kids myself. Um, and that offers six hours of credits through the state of Ohio. Um as far as future learning, UR has other courses such as the advanced automation, they have the servicing um among many other trainings that the students can go further with that if they do finish the core training and they want to take it further. Um the whole idea of of UR is problem based um and critical thinking uh solutions. So that was something that when we were talking to all these uh stakeholders and they came back we're like no we don't really use that we're not familiar with that we kind of talked to them a little bit more
009and found out that they want people that are just they have the aptitude right uh not only the soft skills hard skills and we found that you are offered that um who are curriculum is set up so that you provide a problem and they have to critically think how to do it. It's not just one way to do it. There's many ways to do it. They got to get there on their own. And then that gives them a base uh a base where if they do go out in the real world and they encounter you know some other type of automation or robot they have a critical thinking mindset and a base for automation that they can go ahead and jump in and have them come up with it as far as the lifetime guarantee
010here. So we wanted to make sure that our money was being used wisely. Um, so if any of the robots do uh break, uh, ATC will come and they have a lifetime warranty. They will fix it. So everything's done. All right, now you're good. Um, so what will we be putting our money into? Uh, the big thing is the eight tabletop uh, cobots. These are the arms that you'll see here in a second here in two slides. Um, we're going to get eight of them. The pendants, the grippers, and the cards that come with them, the cards allow us to to take wherever you want to. So if you want to roll them down to say the middle school, we can do that. Um the Festo pneumatics and uh workbooks. Um so where the universal
011robot arms, those are cobots that are used, you'll see them in like our manufacturing, chip manufacturing. Um the pneumatics and the PLC's which are on the on the next slide. Uh these you'll see uh more in like f anywhere that needs fast automation is what you'll see. AC/DC training systems uh this is just getting circuits and electrical training students. There'll be four of those systems. The universal coach are coming in at see that 367,000. The Festo pneumatics are coming in at 56,000. Uh and the AC/DC training system is coming in at 40,000. Uh the mechatronic training system here, uh this is going to get kids used to a conveyor belt system. Uh and then the PLC training uh software which I talked about on the last slide. Again, this is any any industry that they
012would need fast automation. Um this is what they would encounter. Okay. So up on the top there, that is the cobalt arm. That's one that we'll get aid of. That's the the big one that the core training is is uh is encompassing. The AC/DC box there is on the bottom left and then the mechatronic is on the bottom right and the uh pneumatics is on the top right there. So that's kind of some visuals of what we'll be getting. >> All right, Scott, you want to take over? >> Yeah, I'm the closer because I was the closer on this whole process. It was it was yeah I just I just Rick bonded myself into this statement. Um so um I'll click that link and so a little bit of the room rendering. So when I
013got involved with this the they we're already talking furniture and what's the room going to look like and and all of those costs. Um Allan, Rita and Todd had already had the big vision of of the usefulness of the robots. We are truly you know trying to chase that unicorn. It needs to be a room for somebody who wants to work um you know on on the line with robots and others who may want to someday build and design next generation robots and we so it's it's a little bit of a chase but that's why we're trying it. Okay. Um so keep going down there Al. This is all shared with everybody hopefully too so you can see it. Keep going. All right. So that's that's a kind of an overview with the furniture on
014the right. This was produced by the company that we're looking to purchase this from. Uh the furniture choices are on the right. The layout of the room, that's the robotic room itself. Uh the room itself is it's very fluid, mobile. Everything can be pushed around, moved around. The robots can even be moved around in and out of the back storage room. And there's not a there's no additional electrical needs or anything in there. So, keep going down out just more furniture. and then actually draw a picture of what the right there is what the the 3D imaging of what that robotics room would look like um without the robots in it. That's just the tables and the seating area um and all that. So, as we go to the other room, part of this is
015also a a refurbishing of the old computer lab, which hasn't been done in how many years >> furniture probably 30 plus, >> right? So, um Mr. Smith came in and said, "Yeah, I was the guy that contracted the electrical in this room." You know, so it's been a while. Um, so that's that's a look. It's still we'll keep that five. Um, we thought this was the best look still. The five rows, we'll get 25 computers. We don't need new machines right now. We purchased those recently enough. Um, but that's where the furniture money uh was going to. And it's and it's both sides, right? Those rooms are right next to each other with a huge storage space in between. And um so you have access to those to take a look at. So those are
016the renderings of the room. And um yeah, any questions? >> So how like how much interest is there in this from the kids side? Like how many kids do you anticipate being in the program and where do they start off at? >> Well, we can use some of our U science data to see where the interests are and that you science data tells us that they have an aptitude u but they have a low interest. So there's a gap. is one of our biggest gaps. So, we see it as our task is to fill that, right? To recruit. So, we want to talk to our eighth graders coming up, our high level math students, make sure they're aware of these opportunities. Clearly communicate this to families before registration season so that when they sit down
017in February to to register for classes, they can they can think strategically about their options. Um, we want to utilize resources like Bonnie Kvassic, make sure she's aware and, you know, she can help us with that communication piece as well. Um, you know, I think that this is something that we're we're hitting, you know, we're coming at it with enough time to do that recruitment and that and communication. Um, will it be, you know, will there be every single desk full every single block of the day? No. Um but you know it will grow and I think that you know with our industry partners and some of the the names and some of the buyin I'm really I'm hopeful um that that it'll become something popular that people want to do. >> So that was
018you know kind of the timeline on this too. So if we can get the labs built at least furnished up running looking wise by registration time um >> February. Yes. >> Getting the kids in it to see it and and see what it can do and Ben knows it. uh obviously enough to to give them some demos and make them interested. Um now the computer lab is multifunctional, right? That's you know that lab itself right now is being used for data science courses and things like that. So that's not necessarily tied completely to the robot side of it. >> And I think a big draw for our families will be we've done a lot with Dr. Tedesco and Lake Erie. So if we can make it a CCP level course, it it attracts a lot
019of our higherend students. So when you write these grants, there's a couple things that drive it. Number one is it an in demand job within our region throughout the state. So this checks that box and so they're only going to fund those those type of deals. And when you look at um what automation 4.0 is, it's like the next step in this whole it's like the industrial revolution of our age started about 2017. A lot of AI and and uh just automation involved in the manufacturing and agriculture type of settings which are huge in in in Lake County, right? Um, but I think as far as the interest part to answer that question specifically, having that connection with Dr. Tedesco who's been a great partner through this all and has sat at the table with
020us, I think that will help draw in those kids coming out of, you know, a lot of our students and he's a Perry resident as well. So, >> as far as class size goes, they recommend two students. >> Yeah. And um, grades 9 through 12. Any student would be >> That's why we wanted to go. You can you can get n graders on there. No problem. >> Does this open an opportunity for I mean we always want to get our kids involved as much as possible and feel part of something. Does this open opportunity for any like are there extracurriculars involved with it as well that maybe they have potential to like a club or something even after school to go further. >> The potential is there. >> The potential is definitely there. >> It's
021all going to depend on you know that all that initial interest and things like that. So, >> well, I mean the world you guys tend to get kids interested in a lot of really >> Yeah. And it it that interest comes and goes sometimes for different clubs and activities, but yeah, definitely. >> So, maybe even robotics competitions. >> Oh, that's a little different type of competition, right? >> Talk to middle school about that >> to to kind of like get them excited about that. There's some talk. >> What about any field trips or anything out to employers that would show them hands-on? encouraged by everybody around. >> Absolutely. Our share your genius day is coming together for October 15th for our sixth graders and um I called buyers and I was like, "Hey, could we
022come for like an hour and a half after lunch? We'll bring our own food. We'll provide our own transportation. No worries." And they got back to me and they're like, "How about you stay all day and we'll buy everyone Chick-fil-A?" I was like, "That's awesome. >> Yes." So, I found out that um I didn't say yes right away actually. I said, "What's the plan? But the um he went over their whole team went over. They're just they're big, right? And so they have the capacity to devote people to this kind of stuff and the giant claw machine, you know, like but um obviously but um it's uh they're doing some sorting. They'll be using the automation uh very handson at um at buyers that day. So our sixth graders, you know, in a little over
023a month will be having those experiences. >> Very cool. >> Awesome. It sounds exciting to offer more programming for kids and more there. And I love that you guys have the the resources available to go down and see where the kids interests are and see where we may be having a little gap and fill those needs. And especially with grant money, that's even better. So well done. Thank you for all your effort. >> Thank you. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Um you have anything else in your spotlight? >> That's I would just add in there that the another part connected to this grant was pass lab at the middle school and and that room is ready to go. Jim Smith did a lot of connecting two different uh spaces up there. So if you ever
024want to stop by, give us a call. We'll give you a tour of that space. It's a It's pretty impressive looking and it was the first stage of this grant spending this big chunk of light. >> Awesome. Awesome. >> Thank you. >> Um if anyone doesn't have any objections, I'm going to swap the order a little bit and move the executive session up. >> Thank you guys. >> Um we're going to move the executive session up ahead of the discussion items if that's all right. >> Um so percent higher revised code section 12122G1. I hereby move that the board adjurnn for executive session for the purpose of considering the appointment of a public official of the school district. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Foley, >> yes. >> Mr.
025Light, >> yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. Mrs. >> Yes. Um, first is consideration of candidates for for vacancy. We have one application. So, we will discuss that at the next meeting and make our decision for the school board. >> Oh, yes. We can't make the decision now. We have to wait until after 10 days. So, at the next board meeting, we would anticipate being able to make a decision. >> Um, rec board representative, do we have any? We had several applicants, a lot more than we anticipated. So, grateful for everyone who wants to step forward and contribute to the community by volunteering their time for that. Um, do we have any nominations? Okay. Any other nominations? >> You know, this is resonating. >> Yeah. And we did follow up with some questions just because there
026were so many that um you know, I know it was short notice for the questions, but that's kind of the nature of the position also where everything is kind of short notice and you have to be able to respond and >> um so um is there any other Okay, can we do a roll call, please? Mic. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Truster. >> Wait. Yes. Did we do it wrong? >> Yes. >> A second. >> I mean, that's the motion of the nomination, isn't it? So, you I think Okay. So, do you want to do officially as a motion? I move that we >> No, I we nominated. I nominated. >> Okay. So, I think we did it right. >> We did it right. I didn't know if I was supposed to
027say his name or say yes. >> You were supposed to say yes. >> Yes. >> Okay. Um, so we all said yes. >> Okay. Do you want to do a motion in a second? >> I can second. >> All right. And then the rose still. Is anyone changing their mind? Nope. Okay. Good. Then the procedures sometimes get a little tricky. Um, so um Suzanne, will you send an email out? I'll send you what the format was that we've used in the past. Sure. to let them know and let the rec department also know that we've chosen our representative and then we can get them in the loop as to when the next meeting is. Um so and then moving on to the next item that is related to board business. So, old discussion, we did
028talk a little bit about putting out um some communication because there's still continuing questions about the finances of the the school as it relates to the data center and the impact that the data center would have. So, we we thought that maybe it would be a good idea to put out a school's perspective and what we know because it seems like a lot of people are going back and forth. I haven't gotten any calls on it. Has anyone gotten any calls on it? So, rather than having people Yeah, a couple people have asked like we've definitely been asked, but no one specifically is coming and saying like what is your thing? But we hear that there's a lot of communication and we hear that oh did you hear this and you know and and while
029we don't respond to rumors we we know that there's a concern in the community it's best to address it. So um we did meet with the village and had some discussions with them. So it seems like we're on the same page with them and and it's a really collaborative relationship at this point moving forward that we can engage in communications and conversations. We've asked that we have a seat at the table especially our CFO super people that are the experts finance to be part of that discussion when they're ready for those next steps in terms of what does it look like but whatever comes up with that situation. So, are we all comfortable with the communication going out? >> How would that be? How would that go out? >> Social media or email. >> Yeah.
030>> Right. >> They just want to understand what's going to happen. I mean, I'll share it on Facebook once the school or someone post that way. There is a lot of misinformation still floating out there. >> Yeah. So, if we get our website, social media, campus or parent square, that's which by the way, I've heard a lot of great feedback about that. >> Good. >> Um, it's good to have all the communication one place. So, if we can get that information out there and get it into everyone's hands and then if you'd have questions, we are always open to answering anyone's questions. Mrs. Ko is probably our best resource when it comes to finances and um understands it like no other because it is complex and ever changing >> and explained it last. >> Yes.
031>> Right. And when and when we met the village, she did a pretty thorough explanation of getting everyone on the same page of why it's so hard to predict what happens and all the different factors that go into it. So while it may look like, you know, the school is going to have a windfall of money, that's not necessarily the case because there are a lot of other factors that come into it and come into play, but as it stands right now, school's TP is good for two years >> and that's been consistently the case that every two years we go back for however long and financial forecast is, as we always say, a tool moving forward that we use, but it's not a budget. It's not concrete. It is just a tool we use
032and there's a lot of things we can't factor into when we look at it. So, we have to use it as such. Um, but I'm confident that we have good relationship moving forward with the village and that we can collaborate together to protect all of our taxpayers while promoting. >> So, we're okay with >> Yeah. I just want to make sure that we do have a discussion appointing. >> Yes. >> Looks like a board function. >> Yeah. >> And make sure we know what They've been good about us. >> Yeah. >> All right. Is there anything else that we need to discuss? Okay. Is there Oh, um talk about the parade. >> Sure. >> So, the homecoming parade is always an exciting time for the kids. Very student focused. We have the Memorial Day parade.
033and other entities and things. And I think like in recent years it seems like more and more like maybe outside entities might be coming into the parade. Um and it's not meant to be an advertising opportunity. It is goodwill for the community and all that, but really I think my personal opinion is it should stay pretty student focused. So I I think it's a good idea and this is just I mean open for discussion but I think it's a good idea if we take the parade and make it be something that is completely student focused and is only open to participation from student groups or organizations that directly impact it and work with our students um so that we can keep it on the kids. I don't know if that changes too much, but I
034think it eliminates a lot of outside influence and really keeps it >> focused >> student focused. I mean, it's it's the kids parade. It's their time. It's their time to shine. It's their homecoming alumni groups obviously, but anyone else that like directly like I mean, it's Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts and things like that, like they are working with our students. That's the TNT twirlers like those are our students like that kind of stuff. But anything that's not focused on that, I think it would be a good idea to to kind of limit. >> It's considered a school activity. >> It is. It's it's a parade is a school sponsored event. Correct. >> Yep. >> Are there outside entities that insistently give back? >> Well, I mean there's a lot of outside. >> No, I'm
035I don't know. I I'm trying to think of even like we're always in the one table, so I don't see who's in it. I just to know how many um we've been having. >> I don't think that there's too many, but I think that it's something that where once it starts has a tendency to grow and I don't want it to bloom and just I personally don't want it to bloom into something that becomes less student focused and more about other things like it's it was funny last year. I think it was last year and year before we were like well everybody in Perry's in the parade. >> Yeah. >> There's nobody watching the parade because everybody's in it now. >> There was a lot of people in the parade. the kids who we never
036seem to have enough candy for no matter how many bags. >> Yeah, like the people at DM are getting >> but I mean it doesn't our policy says something already, doesn't it? >> Um I'm not sure about school sponsored events. I think we have policy on it, but I have to look at exactly what it says. >> I know there is as far as politics. So as far as like any campaigning and stuff like that is not ever allowed in the parade. There's nothing political, local, national. It's it's student focused. >> So would we be saying we want to keep it just student just student organizations participate in our parade? Who organizes our parade for us that would say yes or no, you can and can't commit our grade. >> So it's a high school
037run event. Um Jeff Goodman has done a lot with the parade over the coming years both in his the different supplementals that he has. Ronda Cook as the homecoming supplemental holder. So those two Jeff's taken a lot of lead on the on the trade. He normally, you know, different communications come in requests that we've had over the years. Um we've always taken a strong stance on the on political campaigns not being part of the parade. This would be another this would be a step to to just keep it all student focused and not so you pretty much have different groups student based groups businesses and then this time of year when because you're always leading up to November you have um sometimes political campaigns just people run for local offices that want to be involved.
038>> This would only be students no business political. >> That's fine. >> That's what I would that's what I would propose. I think that that's a good idea to keep it. >> Like last year, what do we have? Our band, the >> youth, cheerleaders, >> alumni, CL, you have class clubs for each grade level, >> did any did any >> groups? I think there are several businesses. I don't remember which specific ones, but >> any like high school relate groups though, like clubs or whatever. >> Yeah, they there's been different clubs in it as well over the years. >> Well, all of our students can participate, right? >> Yeah. Every team have each building usually there's a flow for each um each building as well. Elementary kids are are on there and then you have
039all your homecoming court obviously >> cards for each candidate. Yeah. And like so technically like our youth football there is a parade, right? Like technically that's not a school activity, but it's our students and it's our kids and we support that that program. So obviously like that's I don't I don't have an issue with like you know supporting our kids in whatever activities they're in. Um but it should be kid focused. >> No I that I mean adding the kids the more kids I think marrier I think is awesome. >> Yeah. So does anyone have any objection to like making that kind of the we don't need policy on it but like those would be our parameters our expectations right >> and there was nothing like how I'm just asking like I didn't know like
040if a business was like hey I want to I would love to do this is there something they had to do in order >> how we charge a fee >> that's what I was trying to that's what I'm trying to figure a donation like hey we'll do this okay >> um I just didn't want to take you know anything away from the school or anything like Right. We get a charge fee. >> Okay. So, I guess that that would be the parameters we would request then. Um, obviously we don't make day-to-day decisions, so that's on you, but that's that's our request. >> Requested parameters, >> guidance, board guidance. >> All right. If there is there anything else? Is there a motion to adjurnn? >> Roll call, please. >> Yes. >> M. Yes.