Published March 23. 2022 12:12PM
On March 14, Salisbury Elementary School was the place to be for fun and excitement as the school sponsored a STEM Family Night featuring stations inspiring ingenuity and creative thinking in every corner of the building.
STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and math and is a hands-on, project-based learning approach that fosters critical and analytical thinking with an emphasis on teamwork by encouraging innovative ideas and creative solutions to solve real world problems.
Students in grades K-4, along with their families, programmed robots, raced against the clock to replicate patterns using objects like dominoes and cups, built towers with pencils, clothespins or blocks and used logical reasoning to figure out why objects or numbers did not belong to a group.
Families were given a stamp card to mark the stations they visited and at the end of the night they cashed it in for a swag bag full of fun activities to use at home and a raffle ticket to win one of three gift baskets sponsored by the PTO. One gets hungry after using all that brain power so the PTO also provided pizza, hot dogs and sweet treats for families to enjoy.
PRESS PHOTOS BY KATHY HASSICK Jared Nye practices his flexible thinking skills as he explains to mom and dad Janie and Seth Nye which number does not belong.
In keeping with the science and technology theme, Sara Page scans the QR code to sign in for the evening's festivities.
Abigail Martling shows sister Teagan how to program a Bee Bot across a grid maze.
Theresa Patterson and Carly Henninger work together to figure out which shape does not belong.
Ned Kline gets a high five from mom Esther Lindstrom after a job well done creating patterns with cups at the speed building station.
The pencil tower station proves to be a formidable challenge for all. Skylah Ruiz and mom Tateyanna seem up to the task working diligently to form a tower using only clothespins and pencils.
