PRESS RELEASEFor immediate release [email protected] Industry Sponsored Mobile App Now Available to Connect Teachers with Volunteers Teachers and Industry Volunteers Encouraged to Create Profiles and Listings in New STEM Mentor Exchange to Help Prepare Students for Future Jobs Salt Lake City, UT – June 29, 2017 – The STEM Partners Foundation today announced the release of the STEM Mentor Exchange (STEM …
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 …
Cache Makes Girls’ Confidence Soars While Successfully Flying an Airplane
Nothing is quite as nerve-wracking as boarding a small airplane with a 12-year-old girl as your pilot. But nothing builds a young girl’s confidence in quite the same way as successfully flying a Diamond DA40 airplane. Over a six-week period, a group of girls between ages 11 and 15 in Cache School District had the opportunity to learn about aviation …
Utah Schools Receive Official State STEM Designation
The Utah State Board of Education (USBE) Friday approved eight public schools for the Utah STEM School Designation. This is the second group of schools to be selected since the program began last year. USBE, in partnership with the Utah STEM Action Center, developed the Utah STEM Schools Designation program to better define and standardize the elements that create a …
STEM Designated School Earns Third Place at International FIRST Lego Competition
STEM Platinum School, Beehive Science and Technology Academy was awarded the third-place award among the thirty-nine countries around the world represented in the robot game at the FIRST LEGO League Competition this past weekend in Houston, Texas. Way to go, team! FIRST Lego League | UAkron
Become A STEM Ambassador
The STEM Ambassador Program is for college students or recent college graduates who have a passion for STEM and would like to volunteer their time promoting science, technology, engineering, and math to students, educators, and industry throughout the state of Utah. “I was working in D.C. in Congressman Stewart’s office for a summer, and I met someone from the Governor’s …
Flying High with STEM Learning Quadcopter Classroom Grant
The mission is simple. All you must do is design an attachment for a quadcopter that would allow for the transportation of supplies to a designated area. Students at the Advanced Learning Center were given this task after their teacher received a Classroom Grant from the Utah STEM Action Center for quadcopters. Students used the design process and engineering notebooks …
Jazz, Partners Donate More than $262,000 to Local Nonprofits Through Outreach Programs
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 …
Exceeding Expectations in Math at Creekview Elementary
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 …
Dance your way through Math at AISU
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 …
March 2017 CenturyLink STEM Excellence Award
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 …