Remembering Martin Luther King: Reading & Writing for justice: #ReadWrite4Justice
Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King
STEM Stars Are Readers! • Strong Readers for a Strong Democracy
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Linda Vista teachers were ready to start the Math & Science Challenge program in 2020-2021. Then the pandemic hit. We home delivered robotics kits but our model of in-class and after-school coaching to prepare students for weekend Math Science Challenge Events…
is on hold while we wait for large events to be safe again. In the meantime we’re putting our energy into the STEM Stars Are Readers! online reading platform. Help us fund a classroom!
Saturday’s Event Was Stellar.
Thank you Mrs. Pham for making it all possible. Thank you teachers & students from the local elementary schools who attended!
The Team that made it all happen.
Half of the Junior Botball Programming Challenges are visible here, & the Fundraising station where parent-volunteers are raising money for new robots to meet growing program enrollment!
Thank you, Doug Arbon, San Diego Rotary Club STEM Chair
STEM Stars Are Readers!
Students who earned 5 programming challenge badges earned a free copy of The Secret Code Menace (a story of binary code by UCSD Electrical Engineering professor Pam Cosman)
SDFF is a great organization that has been helping San Diego children get access to technology for over 20 years. They held a wonderful STEMfest at Copley YMCA on March 23.
Intro to K-2 Robotics with Pro-Bot® “Racer” Robot
Intro to 3rd-8th Grade Coding in C and Engineering– with Junior Botball
The rainy season is perfect for indoor Saturday indoor Math & Science Challenge Events!
Math & Science Challenge Events are non-competitive “tournaments” that allow K-8 students to experience the excitement of working to solve robotics challenges in the Arena.
Today we held our second Math & Science Challenge Event of 2019. Thank you to Hoover High and Wilson Middle School for hosting.
And thank you for the ongoing support of the San Diego Rotary Club, the Hoover High Computer Club and Teacher Jack Wetzel, and Pam Pham and the other Hoover Cluster Elementary Teachers. They have worked together to create a fabulous early learning STEM culture for their students!
Rotary Club of San Diego have joined with school principals to promote robotics based STEM
Students attending the SD Botball Regional Tournament!
“We will be kicking off the School Year with a meeting of the School Champions on Thursday, October 4, from 4:30 to 5:30pm at Wilson Middle School ( 3838 Orange Ave., San Diego, 92105).. There will be familiar School Champions present, as well as some new Champions to meet, and it is always encouraging to have Rotary well represented at this initial meeting of the School Champions.
I view Rotary’s role as a facilitator for STEM projects, and some new projects will be presented to the Champions, as well as the popular Jr. Botball Robotics program.
Our Lead Coordinators this year will again be Phet Pease and Lily Vu Brown, and attached is Phet’s invitation to the School Champions and Principals to attend.”
Best of regards,
Doug Arbon
San Diego Rotary STEM Committee
Greetings Champions and Principals,
My name is Phet Pease and I teach STEM electives at Wilson Middle School. Over the past several years, Wilson has been working with the San Diego Rotary Club as part of their Rotary STEM Initiative, which makes a variety of STEM programs available to local schools. On behalf of the Hoover Cluster STEM leadership team, I would like to invite you to our STEM kick off meeting on Thursday, October 4th.
- WHO: Hoover Cluster STEM Champions (or those who aspire to become one!)
- WHERE: Wilson Middle School, 3838 Orange Ave, SD, CA 92105 in the library
- WHEN: Thursday, October 4th from 4:30 – 5:30 PM
- WHAT: Teaming up to provide more STEM opportunities for our students
- WHY: To provide a Support Group for STEM champions across the Hoover Cluster
Light food and beverages will be provided! Each participating Hoover Cluster school that is represented at the meet up will receive a free gift for your site!
- Please RSVP here through google forms!
- STEM Champions, please fill out this survey prior to the meeting to let us know how we may best serve you this year.
Please extend this invitation to other colleagues at your school site or anyone else who you think might be interested! Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Phet Pease
- “Progress Tree” Design Checklist
- Share Learning Goals w/ Students!
Excerpt: “Creating a Classroom Environment That Fosters Engagement…
As someone who has been designing visual goal setting and feedback systems for years, the CA Math & Science Challenge! designer thought that “the unifying goal of always working to help JiJi the penguin cross the screen in ST Math, no matter what the math concept, was brilliant,” and that ST Math’s visual feedback system was first rate. “The students always have a sense of progress and momentum. That goes a long way toward explaining why ST Math is so successful across many different schools and districts.”
Although ST Math was a game-changer, he knew that for the program to truly be effective, there is still a large role for administrators and teachers to play.
“Schools often need help with two areas. The first is figuring out how to embed ST Math into school culture and goal setting systems to increase student engagement in school and at home. The second is discovering how to motivate teachers to play and understand every ST Math topic, and each game’s math learning goals for the grade they teach. This prepares them to integrate ST Math into their math instruction and to apply the concepts that students are mastering to other subjects.”
CA Math & Science Challenge! • K-6 STEM Sequence
If we want American math & science “athletes” to be stay competitive, we need to get every American child playing the game at a young age —giving them a lifelong Early Learning Advantage • “A good beginning ever ends… “
• sTEm = science Technology Engineering mathematics
• I.T. = Information Technology
The Power of Project Trees
Early Learning Advantage It is well established that giving children an early introduction to music, mathematics, athletic games, or foreign languages gives them a life-long head start over those who start later in life. Two questions arose when we considered early learning robotics:
The “Power of Project Trees” The thing that allowed us to answer ‘yes’ to both questions, and to start a rigorous robotics-based Coding- Applied Math- Engineering Design curriculum at such a young age, was the Project Challenge-Tree (a visual goal-setting & progress-tracking tool). You can learn more about Project Tree’s revolutionary effect on the classroom— and about how to design your own Project Trees for any subject— at this link:
We just published our first Instructable (pretty cool platform), K-2 Robotics First Day, and applied for the Infy Maker Awards Grant: https://t.co/JVDsc9XyMX
— MathScienceChallenge (@CalMathSci) March 7, 2018
#EarlyEd, #GirlsCanCode, #CSForALL