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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.

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...

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...

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Her career path was laid in first grade

She helps students develop language, read, write & grow

Not just a volunteer, but ‘a piece of the library’

He is demonstrating how important English is in business

Partnership pairs high-schoolers with scientists for real-world research

Simulated crime ties science, critical thinking & data analysis

Opportunities abound at first in-house career fair

Partnership with Black-founded nonprofit brings dedicated learning space

Learning life skills ‘where life happens’

State of the Student tackles four big topics

High-schoolers talk mental health with education leaders, legislators

Student news crew interviews state superintendent

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