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Athens Drive High School is a Wake County STEM High School. The STEM Program at Athens Drive has a focus of Energy and Sustainability and serves students in grades 9-12. The STEM Academy prepares students with challenging course work in a concentrated field of work.
Mission Statement
Mission Statement
The mission of the Athens Drive STEM Energy & Sustainability Academy (driven by its teachers) is to provide students with an authentic, linear educational experience by nurturing contemporary workplace skills, implementing engineering design principles, and collaborating with STEM professionals, resulting in relevant and original community engagement.
Energy and Sustainability
Sustainable energy is a form of energy which can potentially be used well into the future without causing harmful repercussions for the Earth and its future generations. Students in the STEM Academy will focus on using technologies and engineering principles to help them understand how we interact with the environment and how we can engineer new sustainable forms of energy.
STEM Principles
Our goal is to prepare high school graduates who are:
Problem-solvers – able to define questions and problems, design investigations to gather data, collect and organize data, draw conclusions, and then apply understandings to new and novel situations.
Innovators – creatively use science, mathematics, and technology concepts and principles by applying them to the engineering design process.
Inventors – recognize the needs of the world and creatively design, test, redesign, and then implement solutions (engineering process).
Self-reliant – able to use initiative and self-motivation to set agendas, develop and gain self-confidence, and work within specified time frames.
Logical thinkers – able to apply rational and logical thought processes of science, mathematics, and engineering design to innovation and invention.
Technologically literate - understand and explain the nature of technology, develop the skills needed, and apply technology appropriately.
Morrison, Janice, 2006. TIES STEM education monograph series, attributes of STEM education.
NOTE: this website is meant to be an active area for sharing of information within the STEM Academy and is aimed at those within the Academy and those working with the Academy. If you cannot find the information here that you are looking for please contact the STEM Coordinator via email at LDoran@wcpss.net. For the 2025-2026 school year, contact elogsdon2@wcpss.net.
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