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Region 5 STEM center director outlines programs, asks city for summer-camp support
Summary
The Region 5 STEM Center director described field trips, competitions, virtual instruction and summer camps that served roughly 1,900 students this year and requested local support to replace expiring federal ESSER funding for free summer camps.
Mark Ossoff, director of the Region 5 STEM Center, told the Sulphur City Council on March 10 that the center served about 1,900 students this academic year through field trips, after-school programs and competitions and asked the city and local industry for help replacing federal ESSER funds used to run free summer camps.
Ossoff said the center—serving multiple parishes and public, private and home-schooled students—operates K–adult programs that include robotics, drone competitions, a portable planetarium and hands-on engineering challenges. He said ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief)…
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