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Spring ISD expands STEM elementary pilot to four campuses with corporate partners funding robots and kits
Summary
The district presented a spring update on STEM elementary pilots at Clark, Heritage, Reynolds and Thompson elementaries, citing Project Lead The Way curriculum, corporate-funded robotics and media-maker partnerships and planned family engagement events including telescope nights.
Spring Independent School District trustees received an update Thursday on the district's STEM elementary pilot that the administration is expanding to four campuses and supporting with outside partnerships and curricular materials.
Dr. Eric Tingle, director of strategic innovation, told the board the effort aims to build a K'12 STEM pipeline beginning at the elementary level to retain students and strengthen feeder relationships into high schools with STEM programming. "STEM education is something that our parents are interested in," Tingle said, summarizing the initiative's goals.
What the pilot includes: The district is using the Project Lead The Way curriculum for hands-on, project-based learning; Deloitte provided "Smart Rover" robots and training for library media…
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