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amollenauer@altoonamirror.com Courtesy photo Second-grader Audreigh Holden-Lager, 8, participates in a hands-on STEM activity at Spring Cove Elementary School. Robotic bugs are creating a buzz in teaching young children STEM skills. Bee-Bots, small robots that teach children coding and computational thinking, are helping younger students practice addition and subtraction and other critical skills. Students have to plan out moves — forward, backward, left and right — required to move the Bee to a specific location. Preschoolers, like students in grades K-2, are being introduced to Bee-Bot...