STEM Fair 2023 - Our STEM Curiosities

It is spring and we had another successful science event at our professional development school. The main events included a field trip to the UT STEM Learning Center on campus, a school's very first STEM Fair, and a STEM festival in the gym where my future teachers shared their practicum learning centres with the school's young STEM experts. UT pre-serivce candidates also acted as STEM judges creating questions and talking to the elementary students about their projects. Most significantly, more than 94% of the student's population created and shared STEM fair projects which was an amazing accomplishment for this very special Title 1 School which included successful presentations by exceptional learners and ML students new to English. We have been asked to develop a presentation for other schools in this region and beyond (summer project?). I am very grateful for my partnership and work with Dr. Pak, the rest of our university team, and all the wonderful students and staff both at the university and our partnering school.