A Joyous, Educational STEAM Day

In late April, the Lower and Middle School science departments hosted STEAM Day! This annual event in which students, faculty and staff, parents, alumni, and outside experts come together to promote science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) education was a joyful celebration of assemblies, immersive workshops, and activities. 

This year’s theme was Innovate Your World – Discovering the STEAM in Everyday Life!  Throughout the day, teachers and workshop hosts encouraged students to explore how STEAM was at work in the world around them or could be applied to their everyday experiences. 

The guiding question was: “How can we use STEAM to make a positive impact on the world around us?”

This year’s schedule divided the day into morning activities for the Lower school and afternoon workshops for the Middle School. The organizers also moved away from the traditional end-of-day competition to allow more time for students to focus on creativity, exploration, and problem-solving.

Lower School Highlights:

Students participated in a wide range of interactive activities and workshops, including:

• Mechanical design and robotics with LEGOs
• Race car building with the RC Racing Academy
• A music production workshop
• Drone programming
• A planetarium experience

Middle School workshops: 

Middle School students explored a diverse selection of workshops, including:

• AI Millionaire Makers: Turn Your Big Ideas into Big Money 
• Build a Hovercraft
• Cancer's Sneaky Spread: How It Grows in Your Body
• Design Your Dream House
• Dog = Calm
• Down & Across: Make and Play Crossword Puzzles
• Drones
• Eraser: The Mistake-cleaners of Society
• Experimenting with Mug Cakes
• Flying Gummy Bears: Learn how to Build Catapults
• Folding Origami
• Getting into a Slimy Situation
• Golf Physics 101
• Light and Color in the Universe
• Make a Bath Bomb
• Science of Baking
• Skin Types And How To Take Care Of It
• Play-Park Design Hackathon
• Spy School: Creating and Cracking Codes
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• Super Slime
• The Art of Candle Making
• The Backstage Knowledge of Airlines
• The Science of Popping Boba
• Women in Science

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