Sharpening the S.A.W.

Increasing STEM Awareness through an interactive Wiki

S T E M

STEM

AWARENESS

WIKI

Arshunda WashingtonAlief Taylor High SchoolGrades 10-12 Chemistry & AP Environmental Science

Kris Bybee-FinleyHurricane High School9-12 Special Education & Science

Bob LochelHatboro-Horsham High School9-12 Math

Donna FalkManalapan Englishtown Middle School8th Grade Forensic Science & PBL

Who Are We?

Our Project Goals Were

• To introduce the concept of STEM to students in traditionally underserved populations

• To demonstrate how STEM permeates every career, regardless of field of choice

• To develop a tangible STEM resource for teachers, students, and the public at-large

WEBINARS

Our ToolsOur Tools

Updates on our STEM Awareness Wiki

We have been collaborating on our Wiki!

http://stemawarenesswiki.wikispaces.com/

Updates on our STEM Awareness Wikihttp://stemawarenesswiki.wikispaces.com/

Pages Added about STEM

Updates on our STEM Awareness Wiki Mrs. Falk’s students began to create prezis on

various STEM careers posted on our wiki!

Computer Hardware Enginner

Marine Biologist

Graphic Designer

Click on links to access Prezis!

Updates on our STEM Awareness WikiMr. Lochel’s kids participated in FIRST Robotics

engineering challenge! Videos posted on our wiki!

Click on link to view videos!

http://stemawarenesswiki.wikispaces.com/FIRST+Robotics

We wanted to collaborate using Skype!

So we had our classes participate in the PRINGLES Potato Chip Challenge! Videos and

Pictures Posted to our Wiki!

Click on link to view videos!

http://stemawarenesswiki.wikispaces.com/Pringles+Challenge/

STILL TO COME…..

Kris has been really busy taking her kids to many science challenges, including Siemens “We Can Change the World" Challenge and the USA Science and Engineering Festival She has been interviewing science professionals and will be uploading video footage of her experiences!

Arshunda has been busy working with her students in all areas of STEM! Their final project is to find a scientist/engineer who shares the student’s background, whether it is race, culture, background, etc.  They are to use anything from PowerPoint to MovieMaker to present their findings, using pictures, drawings, etc to complement their projects, thus putting the “A” in STEM to make “STEAM”. 

STILL TO COME…..More updates to the SAW Wiki:

More presentations on STEM Careers

More inter-school SKYPE Activities

Skype sessions with “real” professionals

Acknowledgements

Once again, Many, MANY thanks to Discovery, Siemens, ORAU, and College Board for

allowing us to share in this unique experience! From,

Donna, Bob, Arshunda & Kris!

Images by: Google, Skype & Wikispaces screen captures, personal cameras.