EdTech Ambassador Program Bridges Upper and Middle School Tech Education
January 12, 2026
A new partnership between The Episcopal School of Dallas EdTech Department, the Gill Library, and the Technology team is providing Upper School students with professional leadership opportunities while bolstering STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education for younger students.
The EdTech Ambassador Program, launched during the 2025-2026 school year, assigns student leaders to provide technical support and research assistance across campus. Among the first ambassadors is Aiden Jones-Quaidoo ’27, an Upper School student who spent the fall semester leading robotics workshops that guided Middle School students through visual coding, logical sequencing, and problem-solving through hands-on design and experimentation.
Jones-Quaidoo’s work centers on the library’s before-school programming, which runs daily from 7:30 to 8:25 a.m. Recognizing his previous experience teaching science and math to elementary students over the summer, school staff invited him to facilitate a new coding initiative using Ozobots—small, programmable robots.
“Since working with computers and helping others is a strong suit for me, I enjoy using my time to make someone’s life easier or to bring someone to an understanding of a problem,” Jones-Quaidoo said.
To transition the activity from play to structured learning, Jones-Quaidoo developed a comprehensive activity checklist for the Middle School participants. The curriculum focuses on how Ozobots interpret visual data. The robots follow black lines and execute specific movements based on color sequences. Under his instruction, students learned to identify which color sequences produced specific results before designing their own paths to test the robots’ logic and movement.
Middle School librarian Debbie Sellars, who manages the morning library programming, noted that peer-to-peer instruction has been highly effective, covering a variety of topics, from literacy to science, during the morning sessions.
“Aiden spent a morning teaching students how to write code to direct their Ozobots to perform,” Sellars said. “The students loved it so much that we have invited Aiden back for a repeat session in the spring semester.”
The EdTech Ambassador Program is designed to provide students like Jones-Quaidoo with tangible work experience, with a focus on time management, effective communication, and accountability. For the school, it creates a cross-divisional mentorship opportunity. The program plans to expand its student-led initiatives in the second semester, with sessions scheduled to fit the ambassadors’ academic and extracurricular schedules.
