Hurricane Ike Education Relief Project ExxonMobil funded, the CSTEM Exploration Camp

The STEM Enrichment Activities provided fun, hands-on, engaging learning experiences for students. The students focused on the following topics:

• Differentiating sources of renewable and non-renewable energy by building models of energy technologies.
• Identifying what energy is and where energy comes from by planning and implementing investigative procedures with solar cars, fuel cell cars, and wind turbines.
• Formulating testable hypothesis and collected data from their experiments to present the advantages and disadvantages of different renewable energy sources.
• Computer programming using NXT G with Lego robots, working cooperatively as a team, classification of Lego’s, problem-solving, measurement using sensor technology, underline process using mathematical tools and patterns and relationships.
• Voice projections, communications, and improvisation for theatre arts.

The following schools participated in the camp:

• Kandystripe Academy K-8
• Blackshear Elementary School
• Longfellow Elementary School
• Thompson Elementary School
• Lockhart Elementary School
• Alcott Elementary School
• Grimes Elementary School
• Sutton Elementary School
• Wharton Elementary School
• Caldwell Elementary School
• Cullen Middle School
• Hartman Middle School
• Pearland Middle School
• Johnston Middle School

Student volunteers supported the camp from the following schools:

• Sharpstown High School
• Empowerment High School

Teacher volunteers supported the camp from the following schools:

• Alcott Elementary School
• Hartman Middle School
• Kandystripe Academy