Down the Hall: Conversations With Teachers

<p>Joe Blay teaches robotics at Stuyvesant High School — the school he graduated from — and coaches a program that has grown to four teams and about 250 students. No tryouts, and no kid is turned away.</p><p></p><p>Sarah and Joe talk about what that takes: a rookie team for freshmen to be able to make the classic mistakes early, the mentor who answered every text, and a pull-aside at a competition that a student brought up a year later. Joe also walks through the day he overrode his students' plan to make a point: "I totally beefed it." Plus...