Schoolwide STEM
Project Based Learning
How we started
STEM Plan
Conference Session!
Engineering Design Process
School Planning Team
Collaborative Spaces - We will meet anywhere!
- Hallway
- Cafeteria
- Gym
- Classrooms
- Library
- Cougar U
- Outside
Outdoor Classroom
Funding provided by a Lowe's Toolbox Grant
Making Chassis
Pitsco Manufacturing Lab
Cougar U
Funding provided by school fundraisers
Teams
Science Olympiad
- Middle School Team
- Projects overlap with STEM Time
- New Elementary Team for 2016-17
- LCPS hosts Regional Science Olympiad Competition
Technology Student Association
- Projects overlap with STEM Time and Science Olympiad
UTOTES - Using the Outdoors to Teach Experiential Sciences
- Grant Partnership with NC Museum of Natural Sciences
- Provides year-long professional development on the school grounds
- Teachers and students create an outdoor learning space
- Teachers and students learn how to care for the outdoor learning space
Learning what lives in our ditches
Dr. B. catches a butterfly
Visiting the NC Museum of Natural Sciences
Agriculture Program
- Active FFA Chapter
- Agriculture classes for 6th - 8th grades
- Competitions
Other STEM Activities
Alternative Energy Sources
Building BridgesTowers
Dragsters
Folklore and Folklife
Gliders
NC Birds and Habitats
Solar Car
STEM Sports
Trebuchet
Digital Citizenship
Hour of Code
STEM Summer Camps
Funding
- School Fundraisers
- Donations, Donations, Donations
- Facebook Promotions - Ask your community!
- Golden Leaf Grant
- Burroughs Wellcome Grant
- Business Partnerships