West Jordan 4-H’er Wins STEM Award, $5,000 Scholarship

Deseret News — The National 4-H Council announced Wednesday that Cassandra Ivie, 17, is the winner of the 2018 4-H Youth in Action Pillar Award for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Ivie, a Utah 4-H state ambassador, is the founder and creator of Incredible Machine, a curriculum that uses supplies to teach engineering, chemical, mechanical and electrical engineering to 4-H …

Interactive Expo Generates Excitement for STEM Studies

For the fifth year in a row, students from Utah middle schools, high schools, and colleges showcased interactive projects focused on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics during the annual Utah Stem Expo on Saturday. The event at Mountain America Expo Center was hosted and organized by Beehive Science and Technology Academy, a STEM-focused charter school, and was free and open …

Utah Students Put Robots Through Their Paces to Earn Spot at State Competition

Fox13 – Dozens of middle and high school students competed at the FIRST Tech Challenge at West High School Saturday. The students design and build intricate robots to complete specific tasks. “We always have to try a bunch of different things, and when we finally solve it, we feel so accomplished, which is the best feeling,” said Anastasia Dunca, an …

Coral Canyon Elementary Partnership Wins $100,000 STEM Grant

St. George News – Coral Canyon Elementary students who belong to the STEM Adventure Club, already the school’s most popular after-school activity, will soon have access to even more resources and opportunities thanks to a recent grant of nearly $100,000 from the Utah STEM Action Center. Warrin Richins, Title 1 coordinator at Coral Canyon Elementary School, said the grant of …

Val Hale: Utah is Better and Stronger When Businesses and Government Work Together

Deseret News – In his 2009 inaugural address, Gov. Gary R. Herbert challenged Utah to create unprecedented partnerships that would lead to unlimited possibilities for the state. Utahns have responded to that challenge in impressive fashion. Indeed, one of Utah’s secrets to success is the willingness of companies and nonprofits to partner with government to solve problems and create a …

STEM Bus Takes STEM Education on the Road

KUTV – STEM education is now on wheels as Utah’s first STEM bus takes the show on the road. The STEM bus is a 1997 UTA bus that used to take people around town. UTA retired the bus. It sat for a little bit before it was donated to become a mobile classroom. The bus has been completely gutted and …

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 …

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 …