Sagamore STEM Committee Assignments Updates

April 20, 2016

Role
Science Lab/STEM Lab
Foley and Stein
Business Partners
Taylor and High
STEM Stars Program
Lambert
STEM Buddies Program
High
STEM Club
Miller and Foley
Lego Robotics and Jr.
Lego Robotics
Club/Seaperch
Barnes, Garrett and
Quinn
Garden Club
Quinn
Odyssey of the Mind
Miller

Update
Ongoing process-Parents coming in to help clean it up before
the two visits.

Taproot will be coming to assist with equalizing the bacteria

issue in the Aquaponics system.

Because of testing and the STEM visit, what are peoples

thoughts on STEM Stars? There is so much going on in
April/May, I wasnt sure if anyone would participate. We took
December off for the same reason. Thoughts?
2nd grade is currently working on the Aquaponics system with
4th.

We will have our last STEM Club meeting for all STEM Club
members on Monday, May 16th.

Jr. Lego Robotics has wrapped up for the year.

Seaperch is also over for the year.
We were discussing about how to structure the robotics
programs next year and possibly making a year long schedule.
Beginning with Lego Robotics, moving on to Seaperch, and then
ending the year with drones.
We cleaned out the flower beds and prepared the soil last
week. We will be planting flowers, vegetables and herbs next
week.
The competition took place on March 12th. All teams did a
great job! We had one team that went to the state
competition at Columbus State University on April 9th. They
got 7th place in the state!

Science Olympiad
Rhinehart
Weekly Wildcat Update
Stein

5th graders Darby Close & Virginia Wise placed 3rd in the
Straw Egg Drop event on Saturday at Druid Hills Middle
School.
STEM News is sent weekly. Please send me your info and/or
pictures--would love them!

STEM Documentation

Dropbox Login Information:

Everyone

Username: juliemartintaylor@gmail.com
Password: SHESDropBox
If you do not have any documentation to go in the STEM
dropbox because it is in your crate, please go into the dropbox
and type, This information can be found in our blue crate.

STEM Units

Please list the STEM units that your grade level is

implementing for SPRING semester:
K- Eco Pots and Plant Transporter
st
1
- Let It Burn
nd
2
- LEGO Robotics, Makey Makey, Preparing and planting a
butterfly garden
rd
3
-We finished building a tower with strength using rocks as
the foundation. We are now starting our Maglev train (EIE)
(Magnets) which is what we will be doing for the certification
visit.
th
4
- We just finished Building Bridges with Bennett & Pless.
We are not starting on our Simple Machines subsystem (EIE)
which is what we will be doing for the certification visit.

5th- We just finished Building Bridges with Bennett and Pless.

We will be doing EIE-A Stick in The Mud.

STEM Fair
Haigood & Montello
STEM PL
Hannah and Dr. Deb

STEM Fair packets are being reviewed and edited. STEM Fair
will take place in the fall of 2016.

Hannah will be doing PL with the staff twice a month. She will
do whole group and meet with grade levels.
Dr. Deb will also be conducting PL that will focus around the
Captain Planet lessons.

STEM Days
Miller and Foley

Feel free to add any

additional
announcements here
!

Our next STEM day will be in May. It will happen on Georgia

STEM Day and Space Day. A STEM parent volunteer is
heading up this STEM day. A schedule will be sent out shortly.