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Essex High ScSTEM Aca A place for exploring and mak

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Academy Overview School within a school to help students explore their passions Academy of Visual and Performing Arts started in 2009 STEM Academy started in 2013 Register for Academies at the end of freshman year Currently 50 students in the STEM Academy STEM and AVPA have their own advisories

School wide initiative, new last year Students placed in multi-age groups of 12, meet 30 minutes per week

Personalized Learning Plans launching Fall 2015, Act 77

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STEM Endorsement Requirements

Enrollment in STEM Advisory Creation of a STEM electronic portfolio, ongoing from 10 th to 12th gra Attend 10 STEM Lecture Series Events STEMinar Internship class (junior year) Capstone project (senior year) Four years of math Four years of science

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Academy Goals Personalized growth throughout the program

Advisory grouped by interest E-portfolio Internship class in junior year Capstone project in senior year

Making connections Students and faculty in advisory

Lecture Series Creativity and collaboration Digital Literacy Awareness of societal and global issues Enhance quality of college application

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Academy Strands

Medicine Life Sciences Computer Science/Math Engineering

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Medical Advisory

Our first project is to build prosthetic hands using the 3D printer in Fablab

Matched with mentors and recipients through e-NABLE We will be making the Raptor

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Building the hands

17 students in Medical Advisory Team taught by academy leader and tech ed teacher

Four hands, three recipients Edited e-NABLE build plates with Rhino CAD software Printed on uPrint by Dimension

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Fab lab

uPrint 3D printer by Dimension Laser Engraver CNC Lathe Electronics Workstation Robotics Club workspace New CNC Milling Machine available

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Life Sciences Advisory

Students completed an inquiry activity inwhich they tested local water samples for thepresence of coliform bacteria.

This activity demonstrated the importance of

using controls during experimentation andwhy water quality testing is important

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Future Plans

Design a bat cave with ideal conditions for hibernating batswithout contamination by white nose fungus

Research genetically modified organisms using DNAelectrophoresis

Investigate biotechnology using a virtual world

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Engineering Advisory

Our first project was to introduce the DesignProcess through building paper rockets. Ourcompressed air cannon can launch paper rocketsmore than a tenth of a mile.

Currently learning Rhino to design 3D printed parts

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Computer Science/Math

Learning about microcontrollers and programming with the Arduinthe SparkFun Inventors Kit 15 circuits designed to unleash a studinner inventor

Student led Follow on activities will likely include:

Modeling using Excel Learning how to create phone apps

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Future Advisory Plans

Continue to work with students on their portfolios Pick a problem in the community

Design and build a solution Contests VT State Science Fair

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Recent Events

Goal setting in portfolios Purdue Admissions spoke to Academy on Wed, Sep 10 Advisory Neurobotik gaming research opportunity with UVM Healthcare Shadow Day through CVAHEC, Oct 17 ECHO partnership under development Library Maker Space Launch Evolutionary Robotics talk with Dr. Josh Bongard from UVM STEM Lecture on Software Development and CubeSats

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STEMinar Internship Class

One semester class Unit 1 Tech Intro Unit 2 Career Exploration Unit 3 Job Sites Unit 4 Connections and Research Unit 5 - Presentations

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Internship Partners

FAHC UVM Revision Military

Liquid Measurement Systems Logic Supply ECHO

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Capstone Projects

First Projects will start in Spring 2015 Will be done in conjunction with the students advisor

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Advisory Board UVM FAHC Champlain College Logic Supply IBM Inntopia Create It Labs Polhemus Keurig Green Mountain

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Current Focus

Increase visibility in the community Define solid community partnerships Create student opportunities in the community Large emphasis on Making in this community, incorporate that into adviso

projects and capstone projects Collaboration with our library AVPA/STEM connections

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Library Maker Space

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Maker Plans

Capstone projects possibly involve Maker projects Expand our presence in the library Workshops in partnership with the community Middle school outreach

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Summary

STEM Endorsement on Diploma Goal setting and personal growth Community Involvement Internship Capstone Project Learning to solve problems in a creative way so they can lend their talents

problems of the future