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S.T.E.A.M. Growing Home Enrichment Trip
During the Growing Home Enrichment Trip, students took a tour of the farm and learned about the plants and produce that the farm grows. They also learned about composting and the processes that the farm uses in order to be organic. During the tour, students were able to ask questions about what they learned on the tour. After the tour, students engaged in two volunteer projects. The first was clearing out an area to plant wildflowers by weeding and flattening the ground. Wildflowers are needed on the farm to attract and provide nourishment to the bees. The other volunteer project was transplanting plants from trays to larger pots. This allows them to have more space to grow.
S.T.E.A.M. Pop-up Sessions Features Northwestern
Facilitators from Northwestern taught students at Jordan Community Elementary School how to use a Tunepad. TunePad is a learning platform that combines music creation with python computer programming. Kids express themselves creatively by remixing popular music or coding their own beats from scratch. Along the way, they pick up important programming concepts from variables, loops, and functions to abstraction, modularity, and debugging.
S.T.E.A.M. Pop-up Session at Sherman School of Excellence
S.T.E.A.M. Pop-up Sessions Features Northwestern
Facilitators from Northwestern introduced students at Jordan Community Elementary School to a Tunepad. TunePad is a learning platform that combines music creation with python computer programming. Kids express themselves creatively by remixing popular music or coding their own beats from scratch. Along the way, they pick up important programming concepts from variables, loops, and functions to abstraction, modularity, and debugging.
S.T.E.A.M. Pop-up Sessions Features Northwestern
Facilitators from Northwestern introduced students at R. Nathaniel Dett Elementary School to a Tunepad. Through the TunePad, students created their own music by coding. TunePad is a learning platform that combines music creation with python computer programming. Kids express themselves creatively by remixing popular music or coding their own beats from scratch. Along the way, they pick up important programming concepts from variables, loops, and functions to abstraction, modularity, and debugging.
S.T.E.A.M. Pop-up Sessions Features IBM
6th grade students at Sherman School of Excellence learned about the engineering approach of design, build, test, and communicate from volunteers at IBM. Students went through the engineering approach by creating their own footwear. They designed shoes to solve problems or add value to shoes that are already on the market.
S.T.E.A.M Pop-up Sessions Features Northwestern
Facilitators from Northwestern introduced students to a Tunepad. TunePad is a learning platform that combines music creation with python computer programming. Kids express themselves creatively by remixing popular music or coding their own beats from scratch. Along the way, they pick up important programming concepts from variables, loops, and functions to abstraction, modularity, and debugging.
S.T.E.A.M. Pop-up Sessions Features Hacemos and Microsoft
HACEMOS - Chicago Chapter and Microsoft Chicago, S.T.E.A.M. students at William H. Brown School of Technology built joysticks with cardboard and copper tape and used it to view 3-D rotations of digital shark models. The students connected the joystick to Excel with a microcontroller so they could gather data on the shark's movement while driving through a virtual marine environment.
S.T.E.A.M. Pop-up Sessions Features Hacemos and Microsoft
HACEMOS - Chicago Chapter and Microsoft Chicago came to Sherman School of Excellence for our S.T.E.A.M. Pop-up session to teach students how to build a sensor that lets you control a finger with your hand. They used a sensor, a Microsoft Surface and Excel to visualize hand movements.
S.T.E.A.M. Pop-ups Sessions Features Hacemos and Microsoft
S.T.E.A.M. Pop-up Session at Dett
Students at R. Nathaniel Dett Elementary School learned how to create their own logos using an iPad.
S.T.E.A.M. Pop-up Session Features AT&T
AT&T came to William H. Brown School of Technology to teach students how drones work. Students put on a virtual reality headset and were able to watch the drone flying through the drone's camera.
2018 Summer Session at UIC
2018 Summer Session at IBM
July 17th- Students put on their thinking caps and ventured to IBM for a hands on learning experience on enterprise design thinking.
2018 Summer Session at Chicago Botanic Gardens
July 12- Students took a field trip to the Chicago Botanic Gardens to explore the Butterflies & Blooms exhibit and participate in a scavenger hunt in the English Walled Garden.
2018 Family Space Camp
From May 31st to June 3rd four astronauts, Alex, Omar, Jurni and Tomarian, and their mothers blasted off to Family Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama for an unforgettable journey through space and time. Even though some families had never traveled outside of Chicago, each family geared up and explored the unknown. They built and launched rockets, worked together to complete missions, and trained on a multi-axis chair.