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Accomplishments-Innovate 8 STEM Award- We Won!

Two students from our tiny one district school won a UCSD/Channel 8 Innovate 8 STEM video contest last year!


I teach a middle school elective called Maker Studio. I can try new ideas with this group of science loving students. Makey Makeys, raspberry pis & pibrellas, learning about NOAA, coding, brown bag engineering challenges...

While watching the morning news and eating my breakfast, I saw the Innovate 8 STEM learning contest on San Diego's channel 8. I had my students create videos and encouraged them to enter. San Diego's Channel 8 reporter Carlo Cechetto came to our school to award two of our students Innovate 8 awards in May 2015. Adam D. was the overall winner and Cole P. was a ruuner up. (Both were my students, Cole is also my son.)


These two are on the Channel 8 public service announcement for STEM learning multiple times a day on our local San Diego station. They are at the end saying, "STEM is our future."
See the PSA video here
See the video of Channel 8 coming to our school