On Wednesday, February 21 St. Patrick School conducted Family Engineering Night, highlighting the school’s commitment to a strong S.T.E.M (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) curriculum. St. Patrick School's Family Engineering night enables families to experience for themselves what their children learn each day at school.
Students from preschool to grade eight were asked to select between two STEM activities; Strongest Pasta Tower or Straw Roller Coaster. The Strongest Pasta Tower challenge requires participants to utilize one pound of pasta and two pieces of Styrofoam to create a pasta tower that can hold more than one textbook. The Straw Roller Coaster challenge provided an opportunity for families to engineer a roller coaster that could safely guide a ping pong ball from top to bottom and into a cup. Families enjoyed working together and using key S.T.E.M skills to create, design, and engineer amazing structures.
Saint Patrick School, accredited by AdvancED, is a co-educational, parochial elementary school for students in preschool through eighth grade. The school has been nationally recognized as a United States Department of Education Blue Ribbon School, and a Diocese of Paterson Star School. Saint Patrick School is also a STEM school that promotes student critical thinking and application throughout the curriculum in all grades.
