A group of students hailing from all over the Philadelphia School District got together on Friday night to celebrate the end of the city’s inaugural STEM Awareness Week and show off the various robotics, science experiments and nursing projects they’ve been working on.
The week, which ran from May 29 through June 1, was hosted by the School District of Philadelphia’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Programs Division and offered four events for students, faculty, administrators and parents to raise the profile of STEM programming at various high schools and technical schools, according to a press release.
The STEM Evening Showcase on Friday was held in the lobby at the Philadelphia School District Education Center on N. Broad St. where anyone could stroll through to learn more about STEM initiatives in some of Philadelphia’s high schools.
Check out video below of the students’ work:
Students demonstrate how they learned to test the accuracy of the nutrition facts on a bag of Cheetos:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGLkwXRU7PM?rel=0]
Central High School senior and robotics club president Meghan Ho catches a basketball thrown by the robot her team built for the FIRST Robotics Championship:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNmRw6XmwDA?rel=0]
Angel Gerena, an 8th grader who says he plans to be more involved with the STEM program when he enters high school next year, shows off a water-powered fuel cell he built with a Horizons renewable energy kit and the help of STEM program coordinator Kendrick Davis:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHTyDO8ODko?rel=0]
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