Greenburgh Schools Hold Packed Dads Day

The fathers of Greenburgh Central School District turned out in droves on Tuesday, Sept. 18, for the District's annual Dads Take Your Child to School Day. Every school in the District invited fathers (and significant father figures) into schools and classrooms to get to know teachers, see the facilities and even try their hand at some challenging STEAM problems.

About 25 fathers who were able to stay attended a Dads and Donuts session at Woodlands Middle/High School, where they heard from Superintendent of Schools Dr. Tahira A. DuPree Chase, Board of Education President David Warner, STEAM Director Todd Mensch and others about Greenburgh's extensive course offerings, including the International Baccalaureate Program, the K-12 Mandarin program, robotics and more. They were taken on a tour of the Innovation Quad, got a look at the District's new 30-foot-tall wind and solar power unit, and discovered their inner child by working as teams on the marshmallow challenge, a classic STEAM project of building a tower using nothing more than spaghetti, a marshmallow and some making tape. The winning team received Greenburgh STEAM T-shirts as a prize.