Centennial Uses STE(A)M Truck To Broaden Student Skills

From Centennial HS: Centennial High School is proud to announce a special partnership between its own in-house makerspace (The SPaCE) and STE(A)M Truck, a new mobile makerspace. The collaboration between the two will further introduce Centennial students to a dense, multi-faceted curriculum that is designed to pull them, and their teachers, out of their comfort zones to broaden their future potential and build skills that will contribute to their career success.

“We are very pleased to bring STE(A)M Truck to Centennial High School,” said Principal Kibbey Crumbley. “As the first high-school makerspace in our district, it is fantastic when we get the chance to build community collaboration and make even more innovative learning experiences available to our Knights family. It’s a very exciting time both for students and educators.”

Four “Student Spark Days” will be held throughout the school year, offering a fast-paced, hands-on, festival-style atmosphere using a range of tools and technologies. Students engage across science, technology, engineering, arts and math.

At the end of the year, the school will host a Student Expo Day on May 2, 2018 from 6:00-8:00PM in the Centennial Learning Commons, where its makerspace is housed. The expo event will showcase student work created in the SPaCE throughout the school year. The entire community is invited to attend the expo and to speak to students about their experiences.

The partnership between the Centennial SPaCE and the STE(A)M Truck this year was won by Centennial High School through a Fulton County Seed Fund grant. In addition to the four Student Spark Days and the Student Expo, the STE(A)M Truck will also be conducting SPaCE Cadet (students working in the SPaCE) training on how to facilitate projects and use tools. They will also provide professional development to thirty Centennial teachers. Teachers will be exposed to a range of tools and technologies while learning and exploring novel ideas for integrating “hands-on, minds-on” maker-focused activities into curriculum across all disciplines.

To learn more about STE(A)M Truck, listen to Executive Director Jason Martin talk “Teaching Outside the Box” in his TEDX talk here.

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