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Girls in STEM: Building Motivation and Competence through Sport

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By Donovan Burriss and Kasey Kaler The workforce of professionals concentrated in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is imperative to the expansion and innovation of America’s global competitiveness. Today, females are largely underrepresented in the STEM workforce and hold less than 25% of STEM professions (particularly engineering). Per the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics…

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Beaumont Independent School District campers turn sports into science

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Story via Liz Teitz of Beaumont Enterprise on June 29, 2018 In a quiet classroom Thursday morning, Logan Castille and Aiden Reed adjusted the angle of their spoon-and-popsicle stick catapult. The middle school students flung cotton balls and marshmallows toward a basketball hoop-shaped bucket, shifting the rubber bands holding the pieces together when they missed…

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From Plants to Project-Based Learning; Building the Foundation for STEM Sports

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By Donovan Burriss on June 26, 2018 At the onset, I prompted this question to my 3rd-6th graders, “can you guys tell me what you think STEM is?” Here are some of my favorite answers. “Stem is a part of a flower!” said one 4th grade student. “Isn’t Stem like a plant?” said a 5th-grader….

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Students learn academic skills through STEM Sports programs in Glasgow, KY

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Story via Will Perkins of Glasgow Daily Times on June 19, 2018 Dasia Driver, a rising seventh-grader at Glasgow Middle School, held one end of a measuring tape while rising eighth-grader Miranda Lee held the other Tuesday morning in the parking lot behind GMS. They were measuring and recording the distance that Lee threw a…

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Creating Visionary Students; The Lasting Impact of STEM and Sports Applications

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By Donovon Burriss on June 13, 2018 Traditionally, science and math classes have not been courses of interest for our youth because they do not hold practical applications for the typical child. The lack of these programs for elementary and middle school-aged students is a precursor to a phenomenon taking place at the collegiate level…

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STEM Sports integrates class lessons with sports in Phoenix schools

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By Haley Stesiak of Sports360AZ.com on April 9, 2018 Students and teachers in Phoenix discuss the impact of presenting standard math and science concepts through sports and the opportunity given to students for a comprehensive and hands-on learning experience. Students at Larry C. Kennedy School in Phoenix are getting the opportunity to learn STEM curriculum…