Wow! Friday was STEM Day for the elementary students in our district. My son, Jack, and his team of budding software engineers have been working very hard to plan, write, program, and revise their very own educational video games completely from scratch. This is seriously cool! During the beta phase, sample groups of consumers (other classrooms of students, teachers, and parents) played the games looking for coding bugs, and completed a constructive feedback survey. The teams then made revisions accordingly.
During STEM Day the students displayed their various projects and shared them with parents, teachers, administrators, school board members, and each other. As I walked around the LGIs (large group instruction rooms) in our high school that were filled to the brink with impressive projects and eager students explaining the work that they did to create these projects, I couldn't help but think that these kiddoes were preparing themselves for careers that may not have even been invented yet.
Thanks to the amazing teachers who support, encourage, and stretch this impressive group of students. Wow!
Does your school district have a STEM program? What does it look like?
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