NORTH DAKOTA: NSF EPSCoR State Office-sponsored STEMzone with North Dakota’s Gateway to Science
EPSCoR partner North Dakota’s Gateway to Science continues to deliver hands-on STEM programming throughout North Dakota. Gateway to Science on the Go was recently in Jamestown with its STEMzone program at Lincoln Elementary School.
STEMzone is a carnival-style event with STEM stations that allow students to engage in hands-on learning experiences in STEM. The STEMzone in Jamestown included stations where students could work on circuits, do brain teasers, look at objects through microscopes, build structures, create and test air-powered vehicles, and more.
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“It is also really about career exploration to see what the skills they enjoy doing, and what jobs they can do,” said Janet Rosario, Programs Director for North Dakota’s Gateway to Science. “They learn 21st century skills, creativity, teamwork, collaboration and communication.”
“It also gives them the confidence to do STEM,” she said. “Not just kids, but some adults, are intimidated by science and math. But if they start out young they can gain that confidence to do those things, to do STEM. They can explore careers that they may not have thought that they can do.”