Hands on, full speed ahead

Hands on, full speed ahead

Hands on, full speed ahead 2017 Expanding Horizons Summer Camps exposes kids to variety of skills Pikachu and the Death Star helped kick off the first week of this summer’s Career & Technical Education classes, taking place at Douglas County Schools for a second year at no cost

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Programmed for success

Programmed for success

Programmed for success Be Great By 8th helps students develop skills for life beyond graduation Paintbrushes, colored markers and glitter transformed beach towel-sized sheets of drawing paper on an early spring Friday at Camas Valley Charter School. Student artists were creating the banners for a project involving airplanes

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STEAM Extravaganza blossoms in May

STEAM Extravaganza blossoms in May

STEAM Extravaganza blossoms in May Winter has its place, but it’s not too soon to start thinking about spring – especially when the first-ever STEAM Extravaganza is set to take place in May! Anybody who is involved in the world of STEAM, or who wants to be, is

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Citizen scientists

Citizen scientists STEM Beyond School stimulates young, probing minds In one classroom, kids may be hooking up buddies to homemade lie detectors and comparing the noises that signal fibs versus whoppers. In another, children could be demonstrating Newton’s third law of motion by setting off Alka-Seltzer rockets. Whether

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