By Hannah Kingsley-Ma, KALW Crosscurrents
California eighth-graders are ranked 45th in the country in math. That is according to the most recent scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Meanwhile, the pool of jobs requiring math, science and engineering experience is growing, especially in the Bay Area. For people with the right skills, these jobs have become the latest iteration of the American dream — steady, livable wages and plenty of demand.
In San Francisco, a few high schools have started offering hands-on tech experience to students in after-school robotics clubs. George Washington High School in the Richmond District is one of them. The school entered a national robot-building competition of 3,000 teams. Students have six weeks to build a robot that can lift and stack big, plastic bins, for a regional contest in Davis.
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