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When Should You Consider STEM-U?
Is your child creative, curious, and motivated about science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM)? Is he or she always wondering and reasoning and looking for answers? Does you child like to tinker and build? Is your child interested in technology but you don't know where to start? Do you want to give your child a leg up by building skills important for any future career? Is he or she wondering how abstract concepts are relevant? Are you interested in building your child's problem solving and critical thinking skills? Does your child need to build confidence in math? Would you like to stop hearing "why should I learn this, how is it even relevant"? You want your child to be more engaged in what they are learning? |
How STEM-U Works
At STEM-U we help children in grades 1- 10 learn through application and play using our contextual learning approach. The programs offered at STEM-U are designed by a group of STEM professionals and educators who know what it takes to bridge knowledge acquired at school and skills needed to succeed in the real world. Our programs are designed to be engaging and fun and incorporate cool new tools and technologies to building critical thinking and problem solving skills at an early age. We are different from traditional approaches in that we embed abstract concepts in contexts that today's students care about to aid their understanding. Every class provides students a context and associated meaningful challenges to solve. This makes the process of learning more fun because students understand its relevance and can visualize its application. We embed a deep understanding of the content and move beyond memorization. Our classes use the Hungry Teacher approach which uses contextual learning to increase confidence in math. Our approach forces children to ask questions and to use the information available to solve the problem. Hungry Teacher lessons have been widely downloaded and have also been featured on Ted-Ed. |
Why is STEM programming Important? |
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STEM is an interdisciplinary and applied approach to teaching kids Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. If you are wondering why you should consider an after school program watch the video below. After school STEM programs are critical and can prepare your child for a bright future
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Meet Our Students |
Student Name: Payden Aubry
Grade: 9 School: Metro High School, Columbus Payden Aubry came to STEM-U to learn Python, a high level general programming language. Payden is not a novice at programming and is an expert at Scratch. He has dabbled in HTML and a little bit of Python and C. Programming was not really being taught in school and he found himself limited by learning using online tools. He was very interested in learning other languages and its application, not just syntax. This interest brought him to STEM-U which is focused in teaching through application. STEM-U taught Payden the basics and its application. He felt the guidance and structure was an advantage over online tutorials. He also felt he gained insight into how the language is used in the real world as his teacher was a Computer Science professional who made him work on different challenges. Payden loves manipulating data and Python has taught him to do just that. He is working on a project to data mine twitter to assess the most commonly used words on social media before and after the U.S. election. He has also applied Python to help his father who is an evolutionary biologist analyze data. |