The Second Annual STEM Golf Tournament and Mixer is slated to take place at 1 p.m. Thursday, August 9 at the Arrowhead Golf Club. Please click here to purchase sponsorships, buy a golf foursome, or to purchase BBQ dinner tickets. From now through Friday, May 25 there is a registration contest between homeroom classes at the STEM School. The goal is that the last period class who sells the highest dollar amount of sponsorships and registrations will receive a pizza and ice cream party on Wednesday, May 30, afterschool. Read More.
Congratulations to Duncan Shearer who finished in the top ten at the NREL Junior Sprint Car Competition on Saturday at Dakota Ridge High School. One hundred four teams from 23 Colorado schools participated in car competitions hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Congratulations to Alec Yagey, Philip Miceli and Zack Lindsey who won 3rd place in the Design Competition. Congratulations to Engineering Tech Coach – Mike Shallenberger! Pictured left to right: Mike Shallenberger, Duncan Shearer, Alec Yagey, Philip Miceli and Zack Lindsey. Click here for a complete list of all winners.
Thank you STEM Revolution Sponsors
On behalf of the STEM School and Academy Board of Directors, thank you to our STEM Revolution sponsors, higher education leaders, community stakeholders, STEM parents, teachers and staff for a highly successful evening with two of America’s finest innovators – Norm Augustine and Donna Shirley on April 24 at the Wildlife Experience. A sold-out crowd of over 370 STEM Revolutionists were encouraged to accept the challenge of inspiring a new generation of engineers and scientists.
Congratulations to the STEM Middle School Team of Grayson Gerlich, Frasier Feight, Aidan McDonald, Charlie Nims and Neehar George Pandya, who ranked first in the State of Colorado at the Knowledge Master Open, (KMO). The detailed results for middle school teams are posted on the KMO site. The team is coached by Darsh Pandya, Senior Lead Architect at CenturyLink. To read more, please click on the STEM Academy webpage.
Now is the time to sign up for STEM Academy Summer Camps and Classes. For a complete list of all summer classes please click here. The following classes are on the slate for this summer: SparkFun Robotics Camp, Shark Tank – Public Speaking Class, Khan Academy Math Tutoring and Guitar Lessons. All students from all schools are welcome to register for STEM Academy classes, regardless of whether they attend the STEM School.
STEM 4-H FIRST Robotics Team Wins Rookie All-Star Award
The STEM Academy First Robotics Competition (FRC) 4-H Team received the Rookie All-Star Award for outstanding achievement by a first year team at the State FRC competition at the DU Ritchie Center March 24. Read more. The STEM Team was awarded a rookie team grant for $6,500 from the JCPenney Foundation and an additional $2,500 from CSU Extension. Students from seven schools took part in the FRC STEM Academy Team. Four engineers from ULA mentored/coached the team, together with tech teachers and parent volunteers.
Samuel Gunther, STEM School and Academy seventh grader, is the winner of the First Annual Crnic Institute World Down Syndrome Day Essay Contest for middle school students. Sam was honored at a reception at Children’s Hospital on Wednesday, March 21 with Colorado dignitaries and celebrities including Bronco Legend, John Lynch. As part of the contest prize, Sam received an IPod and STEM received a $1500 grant for classroom use. Sam was recently elected as one of the two student counsel representatives for the seventh grade class. Read Sam’s Essay.
Because of mathematical mistakes at the State Technology Student Association (TSA) Conference, the STEM Team was announced the Middle School State First Place Award winner and the Middle School Chapter of the Year for 2012! Thirty-five STEM students earned 39 medals in technical events during the 3-day competition. Congratulations to the TSA Sponsor Mr. Mike Shallenberger, our awesome students and all the parent volunteers who made this great accomplishment possible! Over 700 students from the state of Colorado competed at the event.
Congratulations to the STEM School and Academy Brain Bowl 8th grade team for their third place finish at the 2012 Optimist Brain Bowl State Championship Tournament, March 3, 2012 at Douglas County High School in Castle Rock. The eighth grade team pictured here left to right is comprised of Coach Dipti Pandya, Grayson Gerlich, Frasier Feight, Aidan McDonald, Charlie Nims, Neehar George Pandya, and Coach Darsh Pandya. (Read more.)
STEM Finishes 7th at Raytheon Math Counts Competition
The STEM School and Academy Team finished in 7th place, out of 38 teams with over 350 students participating at the Raytheon Math Counts Competition at DU on Saturday, February 11. Aidan McDonald, 8th grader, and Daniel Horn, 6th grader, both qualified for State Competition on March 10 in Golden finishing 8th and 18th place respectively overall. Congratulations to the entire team and their coach, Dr. Karen Horn a parent volunteer and math professor at Red Rocks Community College. Great job STEM Team!
BEST Robotics Team Takes Top Honors at State
Congratulations to the STEM Academy BEST Robotics Team who won the State Championship BEST of the BEST Award, Founders Award for Creative Design, and 3rd Place Game Award at the October 2011 State Competition. BEST stands for Boosting Engineering Science and Technology. Thank you to Lockheed Martin Engineer Joel Kirkland, and his wife Tami for coaching the team.
Thank you for your generous donations to the STEM Revolution Capital Campaign! We are thrilled to report that over $100,000 in donations have been contributed so far! We are well on our way to reaching our goal of $400,000 by May 1, 2012 and more than $1 million by the end of 2012. Click here to donate on-line to the STEM Revolution Capital Campaign.
The mission of STEM School is to provide an integrated educational system of high standards to engage all students in an academically
rigorous core curriculum, promoting a strong foundation in the sciences, technologies, engineering and math,
relevant to real-world contexts, and building on respect and community assets to prepare students for successful post-secondary endeavors.
Don't forget that we are collecting Box Tops at the front desk.
It's an easy way to collect money for our school!
Lobby Guard
This year, STEM School and Academy has implemented a new check-in system called Lobby Guard. Visitors, vendors and volunteers are required to submit their driver's license or proof of identification to be scanned into this system before proceeding into the building.
For More Information on Security and Lobby Guard
Financial Transparency
To comply with all Financial Transparency regulations, STEM is posting financial transactions on line on a monthly basis. These will be updated monthly by the 25th of each month.
The new STEM student handbook is now available. Feel free to download and print it for your information.
Hardcopies are not available at this time.
STEM Student Handbook
The next STEM Board Meeting will take place on Friday afternoon May 18, at 1 pm in the STEM Conference Room. The purpose of this meeting is a working session regarding CECFA Bond Financing.
STEM Academy BOD Meeting Agenda 5_18_12
Infinite Campus Parent Portal
