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Project STEM

This series focuses on STEM, the cross-curricular approach to teaching science, technology, engineering and math, and the ways students are learning through fast-paced, out-of-your-seat projects and lessons designed to expose students to emerging career fields.

Healthcare leaders ask students for ideas, solutions

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Sixteen students are helping leading scientists and researchers solve problems at an advanced cancer treatment center in Grand Rapids.

Invention the focus of summer camp

Godwin Heights Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

North Godwin students kicked off their summer at the school’s first summer STEM camp.

Artificial Intelligence Incubator, certificate program bring new opportunities for AI education

Grand Rapids Community College Erin Albanese

To reach students and the community, GRCC recently unveiled an Artificial Intelligence Incubator and an AI certificate program.

Testing out Newton’s laws of motion, with longboards

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

During their Gone Boarding unit this spring, Kenowa Hills STEM Academy students created longboards and paddleboards from scratch and tested them at local parks.

Summer camp encourages girls in STEM fields

Education Everywhere Edith Reyes

Girls can change the world, and elementary girls learned just that at a recent Van Andel Institute summer STEM camp.

New STEM space provides cutting-edge opportunities

Kelloggsville Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Three years after voters approved a bond request, students and staff are beginning to see all the possibilities of the high school’s new STEM area.

New manufacturing hub means more space, more students

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Kent Career Tech Center’s new manufacturing hub brought together four programs, each in larger spaces: welding, engineering, precision machining and mechatronics.

Middle-schoolers learn coding, 3D printing, CAD

Kelloggsville Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

A middle school Robotics class teaches coding, 3D printing and computer-aided design. It’s one of three STEM electives offered to expose students to opportunities in high school science and technology.

Fifth-graders prepare for STEM project with an animal visit

Godwin Heights Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Holland’s Outdoor Discovery Center visits with its animals to help North Godwin students prepare for an upcoming STEM project.

Art plus STEM = student-designed machines

Byron Center Alexis Stark

West Middle School art and STEM classes collaborated to learn how to construct simple machines, with design and decoration inspired by artwork.

Library learning includes space, the eclipse and all things astronomical

Video Features Brett Atwood

The Grand Rapids Public Library marked the recent solar eclipse with a family learning event featuring comet-building, an interactive planetarium and a visit from the Air Zoo.

Young engineers turn paper into a wild ride

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Kenowa Hills Middle School STEM Academy students designed, laser-cut and constructed their own roller coasters out of paper, tape and 3D-printed elements.

Young ‘makers’ create handmade games to help STEM lessons stick

Byron Center Alexis Stark

March is makers’ month for kindergarten through fourth-grade students to create computers and arcade games in STEM class at Brown Elementary.

Northern High physics students host elementary STEM program

Forest Hills Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Central Woodlands fifth- and sixth-graders got a hands-on STEM experience through a program hosted by Northern High physics students.

Having fun with digital logic

Northview Morgan Jarema

Northview High Intro to Computer Science students learned digital logic the fun way, thanks to their teacher’s involvement with a fledgling STEM nonprofit.

Students inspired by Barbie, Harry Potter in STEM projects

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Movie characters, books and pop culture references inspired students’ projects featured last semester in the Kenowa Middle School STEM Academy hydraulics showcase.

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