Innovation and Inspiration

We held our first annual district STEAM Showcase on Saturday, May 16th! Many of our teachers, students, and families came out to celebrate the great STEAM learning happening throughout our district! We also had many of our community partners attend to provide additional hands-on learning opportunities for our students. Some of the student presentation highlights were second graders teaching our superintendent how to use the Bee-Bots, fourth graders teaching others how to use Scratch, Middle School students driving their mousetrap cars, LegoRobotics, China and Egypt engineering projects, electricity circuit games, 3D printing projects, and MakeyMakey created video game controllers. We also had water rockets, Taiko recycled tire drumming, woodworking, StopMotion stations, a digital showcase, and art displays. It was a wonderful day to celebrate STEAM in Campbell!

The past few months, I've had the privilege of working with a few of the Marshall Lane CampbellCare 4th and 5th graders on the Tech Challenge. This year's challenge was Seismic Engineering in Action: Build an earthquake-safe structure! Kevin Theobald (site coordinator), Stanley He (leader), and I were also able to participate in the Tech Museum of Innovation's Tech Academy program. This provided us with ongoing support and PD to prepare our students to research earthquakes, materials, tools, the engineering design process, building designs, journaling, interviewing, innovation and teamwork. Last weekend, our students joined over 2,000 students from all over the state to compete in the 28th Tech Challenge! This annual challenge is sponsored by the Tech Museum of Innovation and is free for after-school teams. It was inspiring to see so many students and families there in celebration of engineering and innovation! Our students appropriately named their building &qu