Throughout the summer, the Challenger STEM Learning Center hosts weeklong STEAM Academies for local students from kindergarten to eighth grade. From July 9-13, kids from second and third grades were at the center, learning about space, robots and sparking their imagination and creativity.
The Student Veterans Organization held a service to honor the five military men shot and killed three years ago.
The instructions are simple. Take 20 spaghetti sticks, a yard each of tape and string and a single marshmallow. In 18 minutes, build a structure that can hold the marshmallow at the top without crumbling or tipping over. Easy-peasy, right? Yeah, not so much. Inside the Challenger STEM Learning Center, 18 teachers from around the region divide into teams of four to tackle the problem. Some build teepee-like…
