(Foto por Jeff Clemetson)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe program also changed by adding robotics demonstrations by the Henry robotics teams and new curriculum.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe changed it up and decided to do activities that mimic and are from the San Diego County Science Field Day,\u201d Van Loan-Polselli said. \u201cAs far as I know, these schools do not compete in that event so we want to give them that opportunity to compete and practice in that.\u201d<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s STEMM Day was held on May 31 and around 430 fifth grade students from six schools joined more than 100 PHHS engineering students to work out two STEMM projects. One of the projects the students worked on was a structure activity meant to develop civil engineering skills. With only a Styrofoam square, dozens of plastic straws and a box of T-pins, the students had to construct a foot-tall platform that could hold text books weighing five pounds apiece.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a strength thing \u2014 how can you make it the strongest possible,\u201d described Gage Elementary fifth grade teacher Stefanie Hayes. \u201cThe whole idea behind the STEMM is the kids plan it out, get the materials and then change it along the way to make it the best. When doing STEMM projects you can have eight groups with the same goal and get eight completely different ideas. These kids will come up with the most inventive things.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to learning about structural dynamics \u2014 such as triangles being the strongest shape \u2014 the students also learn how to work as a team and how to overcome failure.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn these projects, they don\u2019t always succeed,\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of failure. But then they learn that if it didn\u2019t work, what would they try for next time.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the fifth graders build their projects, Henry students are there to guide them, without telling them what to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cI kind of gave them hints on how to make it the strongest, but they were really smart and they came up with most of it on their own, if not all of it on their own,\u201d said Theo Hale, a freshman engineering student.<\/p>\n
Sophmore Jax Knight helped a group of students from Marvin Elementary, where he went to school and was a student at the very first STEMM Day at Henry. He said that his class\u2019 project was to create a boat from paper and duct tape. He described the experience as \u201cinspiring\u201d and he now studies engineering at PHHS.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s kind of crazy to think we were that age once doing this stuff,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The mentoring aspect of STEMM Day is one of the main pluses for the Henry students.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe like it because it gives them the opportunity to do the leading and the guiding and the practice at thinking skills that we\u2019re doing with them in class,\u201d Van Loan-Polselli said. \u201cThat\u2019s what we want these kids to be leaving high school. We want them to be in leadership positions in whatever they choose, whether it\u2019s a four-year school, the military, two-year school or a job.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the new location in the amphitheater, Van Loan-Polselli hopes the program will continue to grow.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re so happy that all these school can come and next year we hope even more schools will be available,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
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