STEM Best Practices Conference Attracts Hundreds from All Over the State

KSL — Almost 700 educators, administrators and industry officials gathered at the Utah Valley Convention Center for the third annual STEM Best Practices Conference. Dina Wise, a principal at Bruin Point Elementary, traveled from Carbon County to attend. “I’m the administrator at a rural school. My student population is 110 with an 80 percent poverty rate,” Wise said. Wise brought three …

If at First You Don’t Succeed, Code, Code Again

Amanda Hamilton’s fourth, fifth and sixth-grade students at West Bountiful Elementary were tasked with programming a robot to navigate through a maze on the floor without touching any lines or going out of bounds. In groups of two, they ran back and forth huddling over their Chromebooks to write code and testing how their robots performed in the maze. “Before …