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Kern County Office of Education highlights STEAM4Kern and Steam Yard, expanding camps and a lending library
Summary
Cole Sampson, KCSOS assistant superintendent, told trustees the STEAM4Kern initiative and the Steam Yard facility have expanded hands-on learning across the county, reporting thousands of student interactions, a lending-library for classroom equipment, an expanded teacher professional-development model and plans to extend programming into East Kern.
Cole Sampson, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction for the Kern County Office of Education, told the board on March 10 that the county’s STEAM4Kern initiative has rapidly expanded outreach and programming and that the Steam Yard facility is central to that work. "It is an interactive hands‑on space where kids are gonna get to come have fun, explore, learn, dream, and innovate," Sampson said.
Sampson said the program was rebranded two years ago from "Science for Kern" and now includes maker spaces (for TK–2 and grades 3–8), a recording studio, a drone and VEX room, hydroponics and a lending library of classroom technology. Since August the program has…
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