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Cameras flash as Sgt. Robot, left, built by students at Richmond’s Franklin Military Academy, delivers House Bill 831 to a delighted and impressed Gov. Terry McAuliffe, above, at a signing ceremony Monday at the high school in Church Hill. Gov. McAuliffe praised the public military school’s students for the technology demonstration before signing into law legislation elevating computer science to equal status with English, math, science and history in the state’s Standards of Learning. Joining in applauding the students is state Secretary of Education Anne B. Holton, left. Last week, the governor signed a separate bill that puts vocational, career and technical education on par with academics as part of an overhaul of high school learning beginning in 2018.
