Prairie STEM and Springfield Platteview Fifth Grade Students Take Flight
The 5th students at Platteview Elementary learned about Aeronautics today while they flew drones at Do Space.
Introducing the Prairie STEM Recipients of the 2020-2021 Presidential Volunteer Service Awards
Prairie STEM is honored to announce 8 recipients of The President’s Volunteer Service Award for 2020-2021. Four students attend Brownell Talbot High School in Omaha, NE, and four students attend Greendale High School in Greendale, Wisconsin. Congratulations to Riley Hawkins, Akshay Mehta, Jack Cenovic, Claire Cenovic, students of Brownell Talbot High School in Omaha, and […]
STEAM Night at Spring Lake Magnet
Virtual Reality on the Oculus Prairie STEM brought virtual reality to Spring Lake with Oculus and Neurotrainer. Neurotrainer combines neuroscience and virtual reality to measure cognitive abilities, stimulate neural pathways to prime for learning, and optimize for long-term performance improvements. With Neurotrainer, you can also take virtual field trips. Learn while you are having fun! […]
Summer Camps Are Beginning This Week at Prairie STEM
This week begins Eureka Drone Camp at UNO. This week they will learn all about drone flying and safety, next week they will learn robotics and coding. Sherman and Lothrop Elementary Schools in OPS will be learning Digital Media, Science, and Engineering for the next four weeks. Drawing in 3-D with Nick also begins today […]
Meet Maya Savoy! She is a Prairie STEM volunteer who has devoted many hours to our Virtual STEM Kits and lessons.
Maya Savory is a junior at Brownell Talbot. Maya joined JuSTEMagine during the summer of 2020, and currently holds the position of Director of Curriculum. Maya started working with Prairie STEM over the summer of 2020, assembling Virtual STEM kits for Howard Kennedy Elementary in the Omaha Public Schools. She has since then designed her […]
Prairie STEM Creates and Makes Virtual STEM Kits
Prairie STEM’s Virtual Activity Kits are hands-on, educational lessons for school-age students. All lessons are individually packaged with an insert showing the list of materials included in that lesson. Each box has the student’s grade indicated on the outside. Kits with lessons have been delivered to Howard Kennedy Magnet School in Omaha Public Schools, Oakdale […]
Prairie STEM’s Virtual STEAM Kits that Match Our Virtual Lessons
Kits with lessons have been delivered to Howard Kennedy Magnet School in Omaha Public Schools, Oakdale and Rockbrook in Westside 66 Community Schools, and Saint Cecilia Catholic Schools. Each student will have one educational STEAM lesson to enrich their students’ STEM education, for their October school STEAM Night. Each kit contains materials for different Science […]
Prairie STEM Created and Delivered Virtual STEAM Kits for Howard Kennedy Elementary School in Omaha Public Schools
Three hundred fifty virtual STEM lesson kits were delivered to Howard Kennedy Elementary School on 9/16/2020, to enrich their students’ STEM education. Each kit contained materials for 16 different Science and/or Math activities, all aligned to state and national standards. Thanks so much to JuSTEMagine high school students from Brownell Talbot College Preparatory School, who […]
Tour Howard Kennedy Elementary School in Omaha Public Schools in Virtual Reality
Melissa Zeiszler, Howard Kennedy’s Dean of STEAM, created a very special school tour for their Open House as a part of Omaha Education week, for the students and parents of Howard Kennedy Elementary School. She received professional development training from Jeff Ingraham, of Prairie STEM, and photographed classrooms and office areas in 360 Virtual Reality. […]
