Many rising fifth graders are at home for the summer.
Some are reading, more are playing video games. Some are going on vacations and others are playing sports. But for a few soon-to-be fifth and sixth graders in Tallassee, school was in session last week at robotics camp at Southside Middle School. It is all to exercise the most valuable organ in the human body — the brain.
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