The "Brick Mobile" travels to schools, libraries, and birthday parties to teach lessons.
More than 350 students from local schools took part in hands-on activities, experiments and demonstrations in Bellarmine's Frazier Hall.
The Kentucky Department of Education statewide testing shows it may take time for students to catchup following the pandemic.
Those who study education trends say decades of progress has been erased.
Measures of Academic Progress testing results obtained by WDRB News in response to an open records request show that 45% and 36% of JCPS students tested at grade-level in reading and math, respectively, in the second round of diagnostic testing in the 2021-22 school year.
Rev. Dr. Kevin Cosby, the president of the college, said he hoped the money would help bring more representation of minorities in science, technology, engineering and math careers.
The results, provided by JCPS in response to an open records request, give the district its first look at where current students are in their learning after the COVID-19 pandemic upended the previous two school years.
IDOE is set to release ILEARN results during a July 14 state education board meeting, and officials told WDRB News that preliminary results show declines in English and math. School corporations have been able to disseminate results to parents as they receive them, IDOE officials say.
Camp NTI begins Monday, Aug. 31, and will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m Mondays through Fridays.
Kirsten Buck, a fan of “Weird Al” Yankovic and Disney movies, wrote and recorded her version of the popular Frozen 2 song, which she called “A Variable’s an Unknown,” and posted the video on YouTube and her Google classroom days after JCPS closed its doors in mid-March.