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Great Success for Carver's Pathways Program
Great Success for Carver's Pathways Program
By: Olivia Sontag
Sept. 28, 2022
CARVER- Carver Middle High school (CMHS) was lucky to run five different science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) camps over the summer. Each camp had between 20-40 students attend. Some of the students went to all five camps because of how intriguing it was.
Carver teacher David Arruda (MET Pathway teacher) ran five different Stem camps over the summer. These camps were to highlight the pathways program and to give different camp opportunities.
During Covid the school got a grant that helped with the cost so the camp was free to every student who attended. Arruda also stated, he wants to show all of this to the public to get the students interested.
David Arruda has suggested going to the elementary school to show the upcoming students about the opportunities they will have at CMHS. He wants everyone to recognize the new program.
“This is an opportunity to show the public what we’re up to.”Arruda said.
David Arruda gave some background information about each camp. Here is a quick overview of the different camps:
SPACE CAMP- students learned about the planets and how people travel to space. Students made model solar systems in the back field of CMHS to see how far apart the planets are. They made rockets out of soda bottles and paper. They were launched on the back field by filling them with water and pumping air into them.
ROBOTICS CAMP- Programed root robots. CMHS made a connection to IRobot during this camp and got 12 of their robots for free so the school can do the beta testing for them. The beta testing includes playing games with the robots and doing challenges which the students did during the camp.
MAKER CAMP- Designed and built new things. They made towers, built paper airplanes and built structures with legos. In the future David Arruda said he wants to incorporate the machines in the maker space like the C & C machine, the laser cutter and the 3D printers. He will teach the students how to use these during the next camps.
SCIENCE OF SPORTS- Students got to dissect sheep hearts. It taught them about the cardiovascular system. They also did exercise games to learn about it.
Julia Whalen (CMHS science teacher) ran the last camp. It taught students the importance of our environment. Here is an overview on her camp:
NATURE CAMP- Students learned about living objects and how to clean up the environment. They went to Carver Elementary school to pick up litter around them. They got to observe different lizard species.
The biggest success in this camp was cleaning the litter.
“I pulled the students beforehand to ask if they had ever littered before. They all said they have seen litter,” Whalen said.
The students are all excited for the next STEM camp to take place. The STEM camp encouraged the students that went to take the tech ed classes at CMHS. Eventually when they get into high school they will be able to join the pathways program.
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