A STEM Designated School
A STEM Designated School
6th, 7th & 8th built rubber band cars for the Science Buddies design challenge contest. The score is determined by subtracting the point value of the items used from the distance (in cm) the car traveled.
Kindergarten set up a dental office in tje makerspace to practice what the learned about the STEM career, dentist.
The 3rd graders collaboratively designed and built a device that would grab candy canes. After their devices were complete, each group was given 30 seconds to grab as many candy canes as possible. Those that they successfully removed from the table were theirs to keep.
working with our cubelet robots
The 6th graders are working on coding the Ozobot to move in a certain pattern. They are also building a device to keep the Ozobot from losing the ping pong ball it is pushing as it travels.
STEM Terminology
Design Cycle- the process used by the student to plan for, build, test, and redesign prototypes
Engineering Habits of Mind- curiosity, collaboration, open-mindedness, resilience, resourcefulness, reflection, ethical consideration
Makerspace- a space where students at all grade levels can share equipment, materials, and knowledge to create, plan, fail, learn, and revise products that individually they could not complete due to lack of resources, time, or space.
What Is a Makerspace?
PBL- Project Based Learning
STEM- Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
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