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Assistant Superintendent Cole Sampson highlights Steamyard, countywide STEAM camps and lending library
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Cole Sampson told the Kern County Board of Education that the Steamyard and STEAM for Kern have served thousands of students through field trips, camps and a lending library, are expanding teacher professional development and mentor pipelines, and plan new math and coding events.
Assistant Superintendent Cole Sampson presented the Kern County Office of Education's STEAM for Kern initiative and the Steamyard facility during the board's March 10 meeting, describing an array of student programs, teacher professional development and a growing countywide lending library.
Sampson told trustees the Steamyard repurposed the former curriculum resource center into an interactive, hands‑on space that offers maker spaces, a recording studio, a drone and VEX room, and a patio for hydroponics and vertical gardening. "It is going to be an interactive hands on space where kids are gonna come, have fun, explore, learn, dream, and innovate," Sampson said.
The program has hosted more than 70 field trips since August…
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