Sharing Our Good News (09/30/22)

It’s been a busy week for STEM students and staff who have taken part in after hours promotional events for the school.  Thursday evening, students joined Secondary engineering teacher Mike Shallenberger at the Douglas County Foundation Gala.  Outside of the event, attendees learned about how STEM students designed the first robot in Rockies history to deliver a first pitch!

Additionally, members from our FIRST and BEST teams spent time at Macintosh Academy in Littleton where they helped promote STEM and educate students about what we do.

Earlier in the week, STEM students and staff went to American Academy in Parker to showcase what makes us special and we saw a great turnout and a lot of interested families!

An interesting fusion and osmosis lab going on today in Mr. Schnacke’s AP Biology class. The students are juggling two different experiments. One has to do with creating their own setups with dialysis tubing and determining the direction of water movement. The other experiment involves colored water solutions that involve glucose. The students are tackling a big problem with that one. There was a “mistake” in the lab where labels were accidentally wiped off, so they are determining the relative order of glucose solution using potatoes. At STEM, where there is a problem, our students find the solution!

More Daisy love! Daisy, STEM’s therapy dog, continues making the rounds through the Elementary School, allowing for students to read books to her. Most of the books are about animals and Daisy is learning a lot! The students are taking turns in groups of three or four to spend time with Daisy and they each get to pick a book to read to her. Students and staff love when Daisy comes by for a visit!