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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.

STEM class builds teamwork, creativity, problem-solving skills

Comstock Park Karen Gentry
The STEM class for elementary students at Pine Island and Stoney Creek is a big hit with students and parents. And they can always use donated materials...

Sky’s the limit

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell
Grandville High School introduced a new option this spring: an independent study course that trains students on how to become certified drone pilots...

Coming clean with chemistry

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema
STEM Academy students are on their way to cleaning up as they make, market and sell soap...

Only way to fail is to give up

Northview Morgan Jarema
These high school STEM students learned that cardboard and masking tape alone won’t make for worthy vessels. But the lesson was not about floating their boat...

Gizmos, snakes and a bowling ball circling your head

Kentwood Erin Albanese
More than 100 projects filled the East Kentwood High School Fieldhouse – highlighting the many options and possibilities available to students in STEM...

What if STEM was your job?

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema
Central Woodlands sixth-graders learn how fun with science, technology, engineering and math can be for a lifetime...

Exploring digital skills through pop art, animation and a family journal

Comstock Park Karen Gentry
Animation and other projects introduce middle schoolers to coding and the Google platform...

Building a better backpack rack

Kent ISD Morgan Jarema
A nearly decade-long partnership with Kent ISD gives GVSU students the chance to improve the daily lives of those with disabilities...

Creating little legends by letting littles create

Project STEM Alexis Stark
The area, funded in part by a grant from the district’s education foundation, is aimed at building motor skills, inspiring exploration...

Opening doors to science

Project STEM Erin Albanese
No more memorizing terms and moving on. Students must explore the 'why?' and 'how?'...

It’s all hands-on in chemistry

Godwin Heights Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
The approach is in its second year as a national pilot...

A safe landing for Santa’s helpers

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Materials for the project came from a Discovering STEM kit, donated by Grand Valley State University. The recently discontinued program was run by the GVSU’s Regional Math and Science Center...

Powered by hydraulics

Kenowa Hills Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
“I see now what it takes to be an engineer. The amount of ideas you have to come up with is crazy,” said one eighth-grader...

Making waves in the new school

Kelloggsville Phil de Haan
Science lessons move from cart to classroom, and the results are engaging...
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Waving the green flag of learning

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell
In this STEM classroom, racing handmade wooden dragsters is a highlight of the fall, but a lot of work goes into getting the cars race-ready...

No robotics team? No problem

Project STEM Janice Holst
When a district doesn’t field a robotics team, the thing to do is join That ONE Team...
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