Deseret News — In an effort to assist the local community, the Utah Jazz and six corporate partners teamed up to provide charitable donations of cash or services worth more than $262,000 to a variety of schools and nonprofit organizations along the Wasatch Front this season. Through the team’s player ticket donation program, Jazz players Alec Burks, Boris Diaw, Danté …
Creekview Elementary School’s theme is “Going Beyond Expectations.” In the 2015-2016 school year, its students certainly exceeded expectations when it comes to math. Creekview Elementary School’s student body jumped 21 percent in mathematics proficiency on the state SAGE assessment. “At the beginning of last school year, we realized we desperately needed to improve our math scores,” said John Thomas, principal …
Middle School girls are learning math through dance at the American International School of Utah (AISU). The SHINE Program, originally developed at MIT, is a 10-day intensive course for middle school girls to study math concepts through kinesthetic learning and formal dance training. By connecting the different ways in which students learn, SHINE enables a more effective understanding and retention of …
Isaac Wright, a sixth grade student at Mapleton Elementary School in Nebo School District, is the March 2017 CenturyLink STEM Excellence Awardee. The STEM Action Center partners with the Utah Jazz and CenturyLink to recognize outstanding students that have demonstrated their commitment and passion for excellence in their STEM efforts in school and their community. Isaac was recognized at the …
Student’s SAGE science scores have moved from an average of 56 percent to 77 percent this past year at Blackridge Elementary. Steve Giles, principal at Blackridge Elementary, attributes this success to their teachers who have taken advantage of professional development opportunities offered to the school by Dr. Steven Shumway, professor for the Technology & Engineering Education program in the Fulton …
When you hear a teacher say, “Students would rather do this than anything else in class,” engineering may not be the subject that comes to mind. But for an elementary classroom in Salt Lake City School District, that is exactly what you’ll hear. Paula Marquez, a fifth grade teacher at Highland Park Elementary, recently received a classroom grant from the …
Deseret News — School administrators know it’s not every week that you have a huge windfall come walking through the front door. But for students, faculty and staff at two Davis County high schools, good fortune came knocking in a big way on Friday afternoon. The National Math and Science Initiative, the Northrup Grumman Foundation and Hill Air Force Base …
Orbital ATK today announced an in-kind donation of approximately 500 personal computers to the Utah STEM Action Center, on behalf of the company’s Aerospace Structures Division in Clearfield and its 3,000 Utah employees. Today’s announcement took place at Horace Mann Elementary where the first 20 computers to be donated were given to students at the school. “The Utah STEM Action …
Integral to growing STEM in our communities is mentoring our youth. Carine Clark, Silicon Slopes Executive Board Member, shares tips for teachers and industry members on mentoring. There’s no age or position requirement to be a mentor“Everyone can be a good mentor and help to lift a young person. It’s very empowering to reach out to someone. You will always …
Park Record – Park City High School students Natalie Haerter, Ishan Chho, and Cole Stanton heard from many naysayers. The students had been tasked with designing a mobile STEM classroom out of a bus for their semester-long project in the PCCAPS (Park City Center for Advanced Professional Studies) program. The goal was to create a model the STEM Action Center …
KUTV – In an upcoming event industry and government officials will be present to discuss the current status, needs and resources in computing in Utah, with more than 12 tech companies sharing hands-on exhibits. The event is called STEM: Day on The Hill held at the Utah State Capitol on Jan. 30 from 7 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. A short …
LiveDaybreak is setting a new model for how to engage students and parents in STEM through fun afterschool activities including robotics, circuitry, gardening, animation and dentistry. Earlier this year Daybreak’s community organization created a nonprofit STEM Club for all Daybreak residents. The model is simple: in order to become a member of the club, a parent isresponsible for creating an …