Welcome to STEM
STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
STEM education is an interdisciplinary approach to learning where rigorous academic concepts are coupled with real-world lessons as students apply science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in contexts that make connections between school, community, work, and the global enterprise enabling the development of STEM literacy and with it the ability to compete in the new economy. (Tsupros, 2009)
Classes rotate regularly within the specials schedule and have opportunities for specific collaborative projects at each grade level. The focus in STEM is to incorporate engineering principles while making a contribution to our school and community. We utilize the Engineering Design Process--Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, and Improve.
As the human race thrives on this planet it creates all kinds of problems -- education, uniting people, climate change, there's not enough water, there's not enough food. What are we going to do? Those can all be solved with technologies. It's just a question of how humanity uses it.... You can't change the human race but you can educate them so they can change their behaviors.... Can you inspire a group of young people to be creative and come up with these new ideas? Kara Swisher, Journalist and Recode Founder
Failure isn't always the end;
failure is often the beginning
If you're always playing it safe and you're not failing there's a very high probability that you're not doing anything particularly important.
“We are generally more effectually persuaded by reasons we have ourselves discovered than by those which have occurred to others.”
— Blaise Pascal
SCIENCE -- knowledge about the natural world that is based on facts learned through experiments and observations
TECHNOLOGY -- innovation, change, or modification of the natural environment in order to satisfy perceived human wants and needs
ENGINEERING -- knowledge gained by study, experience, and practice applied to develop ways to economically utilize the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of mankind
MATHEMATICS -- numbers and their operations, interrelations, combinations, generalizations, and abstractions and of space configurations and their structure, measurement, transformations, and generalizations