A student seriously hurt in a Jan. 7 traffic crash went back to class last Monday without stepping inside Commodore Perry High School. He won't be able to do that until his broken leg heals.
Cole Fritz was at home operating a robot that was standing in for him — rolling, actually — and enabling the 16-year-old to interact with his teachers and classmates. They could hear and see each other, thanks to robotic and computer technology and cameras linked wirelessly over the Internet.
"I never thought I'd say this," the 16-year-old said Thursday to his first-period classmates who saw his face on the screen of an iPad mounted to a robot. "I miss school."
"Yeah, right," a couple of them replied.
From his Sandy Creek Township home about a mile away, Cole was using four keys of his computer keyboard to direct the robot around the classroom. Math teacher Marianne Sherwood and her students, including Cole, worked on a trigonometry lesson involving right triangles.
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