Author: ford_aaron

Sunset Middle School opened their doors for Mrs. Hannapel’s fourth graders.  Both schools were reading A Long Water to Water, so decided to collaborate on a shared experience.  Students were split up among a dozen activities set up around the room.  Middle schoolers led learning stations, based on topics of sanitation, clean drinking water, filtration, […]

Fifteen fourth and fifth grade girls are participating in the new Girls in STEM club at Indian Peaks Elementary.  The club will introduce students to many fun activities and careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.  Girls will also gain insight about STEM through outreach collaboration, exposure to current research, career exploration, and strategies for […]

Congratulations to the following teams that participated in the 2nd annual VEX IQ Competition at Indian Peaks:  Gravity, Mainframe Meltdown, Magneto, Mustache Kitties, Elemental STEM Dragons, Anonymous, The Bulldozers, Deez Peanutz, Nuclear Puffs, Flying Hamburgers, Potato Busters, Techno FRES, FRES IKEs, Robot FRES, Super Bots, Dr. FRES, Moose Movers, Peaks Pride, Vex Vipers, Peaks Wizards, […]

This term, the Indian Peaks Parent Leadership Team has decided to focus their efforts on increasing family involvement in the area of Math, specifically in the area of math facts. Two Family Math Nights were hosted last week: Tuesday, Jan. 12th and Thursday, Jan. 14th from 6-7:15 pm. About 50 families participated in the event!  […]

Will You Take the Challenge?  In late October, St. Vrain Valley Schools, with support from the Education Foundation for the St. Vrain Valley, presented a district-wide design challenge competition.  They asked all schools, “How might your school pull a team together to engage in authentic design to integrate technology in our schools?”  With two years […]

Now with Wonders Technology’s teaching tools educators can teach students as young as four how to program complicated technology, such as robots and 3D printers. The Tech Tray works as an input so that students without reading or typing abilities can easily get up and running. By replacing core programming words with building blocks we’ve […]

PreK-5th grade students are experiencing several types of coding opportunities throughout the world-wide Computer Science Week. Students use many tools to learn coding basics and design.  Teachers are exposing students to code.org, Beebots, Dash/Dot robots, Bitsbox, Tynker, and Cubelets.

The Longmont Museum hosted a TEDx event November 21st.  The two-hour Salon event featured short talks by local robotics companies to discuss the future impacts of the industry.  A feature video showcased the robotics program at IPES. Please check out the film HERE Further event information HERE

  Inspired by a read aloud on Halloween, students discovered that a “client” was in need of a design.  The “client” was a family of bats from the book, Bat Baby Finds a Home, by Robert Quackenbush.  The story revealed that it is not easy for bats to find a place to live.  Everywhere the […]

Indian Peaks families came together at the Dive Into STEM event! The night hosted 14 stations with hands-on activities that families were able to rotate through and experience together. Students felt sea lion pelts at the Denver Aquarium table, ran through a computer coding obstacle course with Linz Craig, discovered evidence of animals with Colorado […]