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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.

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Robotics students provide smooth bike rides for refugees and youth in need

Forest Hills Brett Atwood

Robotics students from Forest Hills high schools team up with Upcycle Bikes to provide refurbished bicycles to refugees and others in need of wheels...

No hocus pocus here

Sparta Jane Lally

Students program Ozobots to trick-or-treat in neighborhoods...

Medical detectives diagnose one patient actor at a time

Forest Hills Carol Lautenbach

Central Middle School students played medical detectives as part of Project Lead the Way, a national P-12 experiential learning program...

STEM family event offers hands-on activities

Godwin Heights Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

An open house at Godwin Heights High School brings families together through science, tech, engineering and math...

STEM class builds teamwork, creativity, problem-solving skills

Comstock Park Karen Gentry

The STEM class for elementary students at Pine Island and Stoney Creek is a big hit with students and parents. And they can always use donated materials...

Sky’s the limit

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell

Grandville High School introduced a new option this spring: an independent study course that trains students on how to become certified drone pilots...

Coming clean with chemistry

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

STEM Academy students are on their way to cleaning up as they make, market and sell soap...

Only way to fail is to give up

Northview Morgan Jarema

These high school STEM students learned that cardboard and masking tape alone won’t make for worthy vessels. But the lesson was not about floating their boat...

Gizmos, snakes and a bowling ball circling your head

Kentwood Erin Albanese

More than 100 projects filled the East Kentwood High School Fieldhouse – highlighting the many options and possibilities available to students in STEM...

What if STEM was your job?

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Central Woodlands sixth-graders learn how fun with science, technology, engineering and math can be for a lifetime...

Exploring digital skills through pop art, animation and a family journal

Comstock Park Karen Gentry

Animation and other projects introduce middle schoolers to coding and the Google platform...

Building a better backpack rack

Kent ISD Morgan Jarema

A nearly decade-long partnership with Kent ISD gives GVSU students the chance to improve the daily lives of those with disabilities...

Creating little legends by letting littles create

Project STEM Alexis Stark

The area, funded in part by a grant from the district’s education foundation, is aimed at building motor skills, inspiring exploration...

Opening doors to science

Project STEM Erin Albanese

No more memorizing terms and moving on. Students must explore the 'why?' and 'how?'...

It’s all hands-on in chemistry

Godwin Heights Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

The approach is in its second year as a national pilot...

A safe landing for Santa’s helpers

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Materials for the project came from a Discovering STEM kit, donated by Grand Valley State University. The recently discontinued program was run by the GVSU’s Regional Math and Science Center...

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Making connections to motivate students

On state council, junior hopes to ‘make school better for every individual’

She nurtures them, and they bring her joy

Working in education, ‘You can really make a difference in a community’

High-schoolers use TikTok to inform, entertain

Symphony visit all about sharing the music

Research-based reading curriculum aims to amplify skills

Full symphony orchestra joins strings & marching band

Student news crew interviews state superintendent

Cultural fair: Students share countries, culture

Same family, different major goals

Summer internship leads to national news segment

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