Hello! My students are actively engaged in using our Humingbird kits to develop projects that utilize art, robotics, and coding to tell a story. The students have been meeting after school weekly to design their projects and build them with the help of our school librarian Mrs. Christina Howard. It has been truly exciting to see students…Read More

My students completed their engineering challenge as their finals in Earth and Space. Since then, they have done another engineering challenge. I have not taken the data from before and after yet, but as far as their preparation and critically thinking skills, there was a HUGE difference. They thought out what their plan was before they worked and…Read More

Offering rigorous computer science at the high school level has been challenging. The challenges come not with the implementation necessarily, but that the curriculum purchased with the grant is not the most engaging for students. While the students do agree that they are learning, they are not having fun. If computer science is going to be…Read More

My grant was the to serve as the beginning of a library Makerspace and has certainly served its purpose. Along with several other grants, we are slowly equipping our school with plenty of STEAM materials. Our new challenge is storing the items in an organized and protected way. The items need to be mobile and not out in the open library at all…Read More

We have also purchased a mini backdrop for the drama class. Some of those students will be attending the Summit to perform.