Students build STEAM today at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Students build STEAM today at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center

TAG students Jonathan, Nicholas and Rachel - STEAM presenters

For his senior thesis TAG student Nicholas Okafor took Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) a step beyond. He introduced STEAM -- Science Technology Engineering Arts and Math. After being selected to participate in the prestigious Bezos Scholars program where he was exposed to STEAM, Nicholas desired to share this concept of using creativity and art to enhance student learning in the technical arena.

Assembling a team of TAG peers to help, Nicholas welcomed students and parents from other DISD schools to STEAM through Education workshops from 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. today. TAG students facilitated every aspect of the day, including registration, breakout sessions and lunch.

In addition to interactive STEAM workshops for students, orientation sessions for parents and educators were planned to parallel student events.

Approximately sixty 9 - 12 grade students came to participate in workshops
exploring science and art to diminish global environmental abuse, as well as one loosely based on a Winston Science and Destination Imagination activity led by students Joy Hill and Andrew Mills.

STEAM participants gather for wrap-up

Educator Scholar Erika Ellis is Nicholas' teacher and advisor.

Congratulations to Nicholas Okafor and his student team for a successful day of learning and fun at STEAM through Education.

It was good sharing part of this experience today. Here's wishing all ...

Full STEAM ahead!!!

A Teacher's Creed

"In the classroom on the first day of a new school year, I am eager to meet my students. I have rehearsed my greeting and first day’s remarks, but no matter how many years I’ve prepared for this procedure, it’s always new. My heart pumps a bit harder, faster; I feel adrenaline like an athlete, or like an actor, or maybe like a novice public speaker. It’s a marvelous feeling, this first day, because I know that something special is going to happen, and I know it because I’ve experienced it before and I know that I will experience it every time I meet a new class throughout my venerable career. And then they’re seated before me and I smile at this special feeling. This is an assembly of students, yes. But there’s so much more, because each of these young persons is more than just a student entrusted to me. Each of these students has a story to tell, a lifetime, however brief, of experiences, a history in volumes whose richness and depth I can barely begin to fathom. And so as I absorb the first glimpse of these young charges, I must appreciate the extent of my responsibility, of the privilege I’ve accepted in presenting these young souls my special knowledge. In offering them my talent and passion, I am adding an enormous array of new bright stars to the vast firmament of their minds, stars that will never have time to fade in their lifetimes. I will be part of their story. And I know that each of them will always be part of mine. And that’s a good feeling, a feeling that is perpetually renewed, revisited, and rewritten in A Teacher’s Creed."

Carla Ranger - Dallas ISD Education Blog

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Students build STEAM today at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center

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