STEM fourth grader Anirudh Rao wins Second Place in International Aviation Art Contest
Congratulations to STEM fourth grader Anirudh Rao on winning Second Place in the Junior Category of the Colorado State 2022 International Aviation Art Contest. Anirudh’s art has been sent to the National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO) in McLean, Virginia where it will be judged in the United State of America National Aviation Art Contest in March. NASAO will also announce the winners on their website:
NASAO.org/education/
Way to go Anirudh!
Human Machine Algorithms
This week in Simi Basu’s AP Computer Science Principles class, students took part in the Human Machine Algorithm project. In this activity, students designed an algorithm to find the smallest item in a list. In this case, it was the value of a playing card. Students wrote the algorithm on paper as a clear list of instructions in “pseudocode”. They invented their own syhttps://stematic way for finding the smallest card on the table. Very impressive!
STEM celebrates National School Counselors Week
Did you know this is National School Counselors Week? It’s a great time to recognize our outstanding team which includes (left to right) Kelli Myrick, Alyssa Woodward, Amy Barker, Alex Nardi and Sheri Langston. Thank you for all that you do for the STEM community!

A field trip to the stars
An out of this world field trip! STEM First Graders visited Fiske Planetarium and had an incredible experience. The students took in a solar syhttps://stem show, experimented in the sound lab with pitches, went on a to-scale solar syhttps://stem walk (which was 1-10 billionth scale trip), participated in a light and laser lab where they broke apart light and so much more!
A fun night at Skate City for the STEM community and ES Student Council
STEM sixth graders take overnight trip to Keystone
New trophies for STEM's BEST Robotics Team
STEM Student Siddhi Singh competes in Douglas County Spelling Bee


A STEM Spartans victory
A STEM themed cake surprise
One of our STEM employees has quite the baking talent! Our staff was pleasantly surprised with this cake spelled out as “STEM”. Two of the cakes went to the Elementary School lounge and the other two went to Secondary. Chocolate, white, yellow and funfetti. Thank you to that staff member for giving everyone a sweet start to the week!