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Monthly Newsletter: STEM Academy, Northwest ISD

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Monthly Newsletter: STEM Academy, Northwest ISD

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Flip our STEM Academy classroom! #flipthisstem

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What is STEM? Quick look into the Northwest ISD STEM Academy

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Spotlighting Seniors: Taylor Lawerence

Contributed by: Austin Cratty, Ryan Johnson, and Dan Helfer
Taylor Lawrence is another STEM senior. She has been noticed for her outstanding academic achievements, as well as her success in the senior STEM rocketry class. She even received the privilege of visiting NASA as a representative of the NHS STEM program.

Someday Taylor hopes to attend the University of Oklahoma or Kansas State University, and plans to eventually an architecture firm. Taylor is an example of a true leader in the STEM program, and she wants to remind all underclassmen to "not get overwhelmed and to know [their] limits".

Taylor is the president of STEM Council, as well as president of NTHS. She is involved in NHS (National Honor Society), SHS (Spanish Honor Society) and she also is a section leader in the band.

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#FlipThisStem

By: Beau Rasberry, Hunter Marks, & Koby Boun
The STEM academy was recently a part of a contest hosted by BKM Total Office of Texas called "Flip This Classroom." The objective of the contest was to create a video and twitter hype showcasing how our class used creativity and 21st century skills to enhance learning and why our classroom deserved to be "flipped." The entire academy participated in the contest, posting reasons why the academy deserved to win under the hashtag "FlipThisStem."

A smaller team was put in charge of the making the video presentation and the entire entry. This team was made of seven students from all grade levels, Paul Cockrum, Ashleigh Allison, Calista Lothidm, Carson Lane, Leila Aghili, Austin Navarrette, and Matthew Walling. Although the STEM Academy did not win the grand prize, they received honorable mentioned. Not only was the STEM academy showcased as they accepted the award, but they were give a glass collaboration table and a set of stools that are now in the STEM commons. The furniture will make collaboration a little easier thanks to BKM and our STEM Team.

Fort Worth Museum and Planetarium

By: Vanessa Marlo, Tucker Chaka, & Collin Deffner

On October 3rd, the STEM juniors took a trip to the Fort Worth Science Museum. The students wandered around the museum and participated in many of its hands on displays and stations. The main reason for the trip was to learn about space and black holes. The students watched a video displayed on the museum's planetarium. The video was named, Black Holes; The Other Side of Infinity. Thanks to the museum's endless fun, not one student was bored throughout the entire day. " The students had a great time." says Ms. Sink. "My favorite part was making paper airplanes. There was a small machine that launched the planes at high velocities." claims Charles Martin. The juniors won't forget this field trip anytime soon.

A Glimpse into What STEM is Thankful For:

Taxgedo Image By: Austin Cratty & Dakota Kernodle
" My family and having all the opportunities that I have in school and drill team." -Vanessa Marlo

"My friends and family." -Tucker Chaka

"Playing sports and being healthy, gifts to be given." -Lily Fields

"I am especially thankful for teachers and friends who help me." -Paul Cockrum

"I am thankful to have a loving supporting family and friends and to have a job I actually love waking up and going to." -Mrs. Delong

Yasin Khan

Grade: 9

What are you doing for the break? Going to New York to shop.

Do you have any Family traditions every year around this time of the year? My family eats black eyed peas during new years.

What is one gift that you would want to have for Christmas? Money

What are your favorite foods to eat for the holidays? Corn bread

Tanner Reinhardt

Grade: 10

What are you doing for the break? Snow skiing in Colorado

Do you have any family traditions every year around this time? My mom, sister, and I usually eat together.

What is one gift you would want to have? PS4

What are your favorite foods to eat during the holidays? Pasta

Richard Quiroz

Grade: 12

What are you doing for the break? Starting college applications

Do you have any Family traditions every year around this time of the year? Christmas, enough said.

What is one gift that you would want to have for Christmas? Ps4

Are you going out for town for the holidays or staying local? I am staying local, but I may visit grandparents in Dallas as well.

What is your favorite holiday food? My favorite holiday food is ham.

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PBL in Action! Learning by Doing.

After STEM...

By: Armani Frye and Christian Thomas

How is STEM preparing students for college and the work force? This is a question that many students and parents tend to ask. We checked in with STEM graduate Fabian Vasquiz to see where life outside of the STEM hallway has taken him.

Fabian is currently attending UNT and majoring in Electrical Engineering. When asked how STEM helped prepare him for college, Fabian replied, "By learning to work in teams, I find college projects to go much smoother." Fabian noted that he works on team projects in college and does not struggle with communication and deadlines like many students who have not learned in a collaborative environment do.

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September 2013

OLC Pictures by: Vanessa Marlo and Lindsey Mercer

2013/2014 STEM T-Shirt

By: Tyler McMahon, Chance Hutson, and Richard Warren

STEM offers students many opportunities to creatively approach the projects given to them. One of these creative projects is a tradition for every STEM student. The students gather in teams and come up with a design for the shirt that the STEM students proudly wear at STEM activities. The Shirt designs are submitted for a small competition where students vote for the shirt they wish to wear for the duration of the year.

This year, team 5 consisting of Juniors Ryan Rodgers, Harriet Simon, Josh Swoyer, and Kameron Le created the winning T-Shirt and attracted over 40 voters.

New Year New Technology

By: Tucker Chaka, Clay McClendon, and Briana Maskell

Netbooks have been a big part in NISD High Schools for a few years. This year, however, NISD has given students the opportunity to make Dell Latitude 10 Tablets a part of their learning instead. The tablets, unlike the old netbooks, have touch screens and use windows 8 for the main interface.

The students seem to think it's a great idea to use tablets instead of netbooks. Junior Brandon Fryer states, "Although the touch screen makes maneuvering word documents bit difficult, the new interactive interface and applications have a lot to offer." The tablets allow students to download applications and programs to aid in the overall learning experience.

Several of these programs include OneNote, which is a Microsoft program available that allows the students to communicate with everyone in the class at the same time. All tablets were given to students with the Microsoft suite included. Another program is Join.Me. This program is web based and allows students to project their screen onto the screen in the front of the class for everyone else to see it. Students can also access their Twitter and Facebook accounts through the tablets to make communication among teams and with teachers much easier.

What is STEM? Voices from Outside the Academy

By: Mia Zaro, Mac Barrow, Brandon Fryer, and Collin Deffner

To NHS students outside of the academy, STEM can feel like an entirely different universe, so we decided to ask students in and out of STEM, how they felt about it. Junior Blaine Harris noted, "STEM is basically split from the school. They are their own clique." This is a common response because students in STEM take classes and complete projects with students and friends they have worked with throughout their time in STEM.

Austin Navarrette, a sophomore STEM student noted that if he could describe STEM in one word it would be "Family." According to Austin, "Over the years in STEM I become well acquainted with everyone within my class. It is truly a bonding experience, because we take care of each other." Austin emphasizes just how close we are as a family and how STEM is a big circle of friends. Austin acknowledged that others outside of STEM tend to feel that STEM is something only "nerds" do, and while it is not only for engineers, Austin commented, "STEM makes me use 21st century skills and sparks my interests in all sorts of jobs within the engineering field it opened my eyes for a profession.

Although many teachers are not familiar with the ins and outs of the STEM Academy, they do notice several differences in the STEM students that they have in class. According to NHS Teacher Mrs. Fanning, "Dressing up professionally is a good thing to do because it can prepare students for the real world." Mrs. Fanning noted that the students in STEM tended to be more confident speaking in front of others.

While dressing up for presentations is sometimes tough, the idea of gaining credibility and "dressing for the part" grows on STEM students the longer they are in the academy. In fact, students start taking pride in the way they are perceived on the day of presentations. For the most part, people outside of STEM respect and admire what the STEM Academy does. There are still many misconceptions of the Academy, but the students hope to continue to share with others what the Academy is all about.

By: Casey Martin, Dakota Kernoodle, and Koby Bounheuangvilay

Being the first class that went through the full four years of the STEM program, where is the class of 2013 now? We interviewed Jonna Martin and Andrew Mirabile from the senior class of 2013 to find out.

Jonna Martin

Jonna is currently attending A&M at College Station, planning a career in Marine Biology. When asked how she thought STEM had prepared her for college, she replied, "STEM had a lot of long term projects, so I didn't have many daily grades. College doesn't have daily grades, so it prepared me in that way quite a bit." Jonna wants to be a Marine biologist, and she thinks that STEM helped introduce her to that because of her Biology class. She also states, "Working in teams helped prepare me for that career path because of all of the required teamwork."

Andrew Mirabile

Andrew, also attending A&M, but with plans to go into an Aerospace Design career acknowledged, "STEM has really helped prepare me for college because it introduced me to group work." Andrew noted that because he wants to go into an Aerospace Design career, STEM heavily prepared him by introducing and delving into physics and allowing him the opportunity to complete the rocking building project. "The STEM path had some hardships, but it was well worth it in the end because it both prepared me for college, and my future career in Aerospace Design." Clearly, STEM is a great path that helps prepare students for their lives in college and future careers.

Sophomore Fort Worth Zoo Trip

On September 17th, STEM sophomores took a trip to the Fort Worth zoo to study animal habitats related to their current Biology project. The sophomores has the task of creating their own habitat for a specific animal in teams. Taking detailed notes and pictures of their assigned animal's current zoo habitat was very beneficial.

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