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Redesigning the Maker Space for Optimal Learning
By Janessa Bretner and Rebecca Ochitwa This project is all about students creating alternative arrangements for the Maker Space classroom designed to promote optimal learning and ensuring that the form of the space matches the function. To get started with this project, students needed to research criteria that are important for an optimal Maker’s Space.… Read more
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Sparkade
Our grade 10 elective is well underway and the prototype video games and cabinets are being laser cut and assembled with their Phidgets hardware. This project is all about students designing and programming their own games, and then creating the component housing (screen, Phidgets, cables, computer hardware). Students were inspired by their experience with Journey2050… Read more
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Future Ready Leader Speaker: Muni Boga
STEM Innovation Academy is excited to announce the launch of our new guest speaker series, “Future Ready Leaders,” featuring individuals from a wide range of fields who have achieved success in their careers and can provide inspiration and advice to our students. The first speaker in this series was Muni Boga, a multi-talented individual with… Read more
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Grade 9 World Building Atlases
Our grade 9 students have been learning about setting, characterization, political systems and more. Each student has applied what we’ve been learning to a creative world they are designing. The first activity was to create their maps. Each student cartographer imagined and then created their maps using https://inkarnate.com/. With their maps created, it was time… Read more
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Architectural Technologies Field Trip
By Janessa Bretner and Rebecca Ochitwa Some of our students went on their first field trip in over 2 years! The grade 8 architectural technologies students went on a field trip to downtown Calgary. The goal of the field trip was to look for different designs and ways form follows function. Students were also tasked… Read more
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Announcing the STEM IA Scoop
By Spencer W. Grade 9 STEM IA Scoop Staffer The Stemia Scoop is a newspaper that has been recently started at the STEM IA middle school. This newspaper will document the events happening all throughout the school including important events happening for each grade. The first issue will detail the events of Halloween, Remembrance Day… Read more
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