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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.

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!

Isaac Newton never imagined this

Cedar Springs Beth Heinen Bell

What’s better than simply reading about Newton’s laws of motion? Students getting on a hovercraft and experiencing those laws of motion for themselves...

Can these students’ designs survive the ‘Eggsecutioner?’

Thornapple Kellogg Allison Poosawtsee

Thornapple Kellogg High School students enjoy the culmination of a unit about force and interactions. Grading also included a writing assignment...

E is for engineering

Godwin Heights Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Building a better bag teaches North Godwin students future workplace skills such as collaboration and creativity...

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Cultivating future scientists, techies, mathematicians & engineers

Grand Rapids Erin Albanese

A GRPS graduate who went on to earn a doctorate in engineering is bringing STEM to students and helping boost proficiency...

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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...

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