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Project STEM

This series focuses on STEM, the cross-curricular approach to teaching science, technology, engineering and math, and the ways students are learning through fast-paced, out-of-your-seat projects and lessons designed to expose students to emerging career fields.

Art plus STEM = student-designed machines

Byron Center Alexis Stark

West Middle School art and STEM classes collaborated to learn how to construct simple machines, with design and decoration inspired by artwork.

Library learning includes space, the eclipse and all things astronomical

Video Features Brett Atwood

The Grand Rapids Public Library marked the recent solar eclipse with a family learning event featuring comet-building, an interactive planetarium and a visit from the Air Zoo.

Young engineers turn paper into a wild ride

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Kenowa Hills Middle School STEM Academy students designed, laser-cut and constructed their own roller coasters out of paper, tape and 3D-printed elements.

Young ‘makers’ create handmade games to help STEM lessons stick

Byron Center Alexis Stark

March is makers’ month for kindergarten through fourth-grade students to create computers and arcade games in STEM class at Brown Elementary.

Northern High physics students host elementary STEM program

Forest Hills Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Central Woodlands fifth- and sixth-graders got a hands-on STEM experience through a program hosted by Northern High physics students.

Having fun with digital logic

Northview Morgan Jarema

Northview High Intro to Computer Science students learned digital logic the fun way, thanks to their teacher’s involvement with a fledgling STEM nonprofit.

Students inspired by Barbie, Harry Potter in STEM projects

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Movie characters, books and pop culture references inspired students’ projects featured last semester in the Kenowa Middle School STEM Academy hydraulics showcase.

Windproof houses and trash collectors made of trash: students get creative through STEM

Godwin Heights Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

North Godwin expands its STEM program with all students completing a project this fall.

Students ‘debug’ their way through STEM class

Kentwood Erin Albanese

STEM looks like designing mazes, robot bugs, coding and thinking hard for elementary students in Kentwood Public Schools.

Labs show how wind, water and ice shape the Earth

Caledonia Alexis Stark

Caledonia Elementary fourth-graders become earth scientists for a day and learn about erosion...

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Coding their way to world competition

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark

The Prototypes are the first robotics team from Lee Middle School to qualify for the VEX Robotics World Championship in Dallas, Texas...

Raising recognition of career and tech ed

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

The congresswoman has co-introduced a bill that would create a category for CTE and vocational ed programs on U.S. Census data...

Pilot LEGO program helps young students learn STEM skills

Kelloggsville Sean Bradley

LEGOs inspire creativity and problem-solving at West Kelloggsville Elementary School...

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Inspired by STEM

Kentwood Brett Atwood

Making hydro-gels? Learning Math Magic? Touring a college? There are countless learning opportunities and career pathways in STEM, and fifth-graders from Bowen, Townline and Southwood Elementary schools experienced them in a hands-on way by working with experts at Davenport University...

Lighting the spark for inquiry

Lowell Meghan Gracy

Bushnell Elementary families applied real-world lessons at stations set up throughout the school...

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Where art and engineering collide

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Alpine Elementary third-graders are building straw rockets to go where no student has gone before: the moon!

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