Thanks to our grant we were able to crate four SumoBots to battle each other at our 2nd annual STEAM night. The winner went on to compete at state and made it to the sweet sixteen. The students were engaged in the engineering design process and learned advanced coding techniques all while creatively problem solving to be the best robot. Here is a…Read More

One of our 4th grade teachers uses a “graffiti wall” to assess students’ knowledge of content such as identifying figurative language, text structure, and main idea. I have also utilized this strategy with Social Studies content. Use chart paper or the whiteboard as a space for students to respond to a topic or question. I have most often…Read More

Reflections from our presentation at the FIRE Summit.
Our team presented on the activities we have done this year to improve our reading scores. Since the programs brought into the school did improve our reading scores by 15%, we feel that our efforts paid off. Therefore, we were pleased to share pictures and statistics at the fire summit.…Read More

Story #3 Reflection – Our STEM Nights were such a great success. It brought parents/guardians and students together in a way they haven’t been brought together this year. So many parents/guardians were excited to learn about all the resources we have available at South Floyd Elementary and they were interested to learn about what their children…Read More

**Final Post** I would like to thank KVEC for allowing our school to introduce coding and robotics through the Innovation Grant. Our students were exposed to tech that they would have probably not ever used had it not been for this grant. It brought awareness to how coding and robotics are used in society and really sparked interest in future…Read More