STEM To STEAM: Using programming skill to become NJ State "Film Production" Winners for 2016-2017 PTA Reflections

Update June-4-2017: NJ State winner students received their PTA Reflections award at the state level ceremony on June-4-2017.

This is a story about how New Providence elementary students took interest in learning Scratch Programming, and applied their programming skills to create animations. They then submitted that to PTA Reflections and won Union County Level as well as NJ State Level awards.

In October 2016, Team AIRO (based in New Providence, NJ) has collaborated with JerseySTEM (a non-profit based in Chatham, NJ) to expand their community activity with the concept of "Young Students Teaching Younger Kids". That gave birth to a class at JerseySTEM where 7th grade boys of Team AIRO (Om Desai, Gyan Ghoda & Siddhant Desai) taught Scratch Programming to a bunch of younger kids, often as young as 2nd graders.

At the end of every class, to earn a certificate, students are required to submit & present a project. A few talented students from those Scratch Programming classes took a challenge to complete two projects: one to present in the class, and the other to submit for PTA Reflections. They have used Scratch Programming to create animation, captured a video of their animation, and participated in PTA Reflections competition under category: "Film Production".

And here they are..... Not only they have submitted to PTA Reflections, three of the students actually won awards :)

Know about those student girls & boys, pride of New Providence, and their art work. Click on their names to view their work.

NJ State "Film Production" Winners for 2016-2017

• Lovely & Creative girl Anaya R (grade-2)
• Beautiful & Talented girl Nitya R (grade-2)
• Bright & Enthusiastic boy Anand G (grade-2)

Union County NJ "Film Production" Winners for 2016-2017

• Smart & Zealous girl Amelie L (grade-3)
• Intelligent & Energetic girl Saniya M (grade-3)

Let's wish them all a good luck for everything they do in the future. Wish that their love for STEM education continues.....