BCS Advantage Magazine Special Edition #9 | Page 11

Thanks to a grant from the Duke Energy Foundation, every BCS elementary school now has a
STEM lab – a collaborative space where students take STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Mathematics) concepts that they learn in their classrooms and apply them to solve hands-on
problems in the lab.
STEM education is one of BCS Superintendent Dr. Tony Baldwin’s top four priorities. To learn more,
visit www.buncombeschools.org.
Sand Hill-Venable Elementary School third-grade
teacher Nathan Rhein, center, helps students Kylar
Cormier, left, and Alex Link understand a “physics
of motion” problem at the school’s STEM Lab.
Weaverville Elementary fourth-graders Bailey and
Jackson. Their challenge was to create a source
to tell time without using electricity and the class
created sundials.
Sand Hill-Venable Elementary School third-graders Destinee Mickens, left, and Maxim Andronov
work on a physics project at the school’s STEM Lab.
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