Flight path to fun: LINC summer school programs hit the mark
Youth in LINC’s after-school program at Smith-Hale Middle School watch as a student navigates a drone through an obstacle course.
The drones in flight whined like a shrill plague of insects, bobbing up and down and side to side.
Garcia Elementary children in LINC, above, line up to walk to the KC Public Library Ruiz Branch, then enjoy games at a play fruit market.
The LINC students in goggles who made them go were as unpredictable as the drones — one moment intensely focused, another moment cheering successful flights, or squealing when a wrong flex of the handheld controls set a drone darting back as if a hornet looking to sting.
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LINC’s drone program at Smith-Hale Middle School in Hickman Mills was one of many adventures in educational play in summer school before- and after-school programs in LINC’s Caring Communities in June.
Field trips like the hike Garcia Elementary School students in Kansas City made in their self-made tie-dyed tee shirts to the Kansas City Public Library’s Ruiz Branch led to story-telling, singing and games.
Many LINC programs visited the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, or went to the Kansas City Zoo, hosted Juneteenth cultural dancers, planted and tended gardens and did many other activities.