Area Business Partners Join in STEM Education

Boone students got to explore jobs of partners from many area businesses at our recent Elementary Family STEM night. 

They learned about being an electrician. Staff from Kline Electric helped students build problem solving skills as they put basic circuits together. 

They shared about their job and brought photos from job sites to provide students with a virtual field trip.

Amy Cosentino from McFarland Clinic shared about her job as a radiology technician. Students got to examine x-rays and learned how to recognize various parts of the body from the x-ray image.

Then students were challenged to think like bio-medical engineers and design a splint that could immobilize a part of the body. 

Students practiced staying within a budget as well as extending their math skills at the banking station. They used a requisition sheet to "purchase" materials for a take-home STEM bag. Steve Baccam from Vision Bank assisted student and sent them home with a piggy bank to encourage them to begin saving their money. 

Boone students are fortunate to learn STEM concepts and extend learning with hands-on activities thanks to so many of our generous business partners.