The students of my science classrooms are a cohort of diverse, intelligent, and hardworking students from around the New York City Metropolitan area. Our school is a selective, public, college preparatory school with a focus on science, math, technology, and engineering that provides a challenging academic experience that prepares students for careers in science, math, and engineering.
My classroom is not only a place of challenge and discovery but also a place where students come to de-stress and learn everyday life skills.
Inside and out of the classroom, they are inquisitive learners never afraid to ask how our world works. They are also from very diverse backgrounds and come to school with various experiences that further deepen our classroom learning.
My Project
With this computer, my students will be able to further blur the boundaries between the arts and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). In my STEAM classroom (arts integrated with STEM), students learn how STEM created the tools to provide the arts and about how the aesthetics of arts creates the world we live in.
In my classroom, I hope to inspire students to be like Frank Netter who's detailed pictures gave the world of medicine everlasting material to learn from or John James Audubon, an ornithologist artist, who helped catalog the birds of North America so that future generations could further study
These STEAM lessons are intended to not only teach science but also the arts. With this very versatile computer, we will be able to further extend the arts and sciences. The computer is equipped with a special pen that allows students to create digital art. In addition, we have piano keyboards that are compatible with this computer and will allow us to create and study music.
In addition, these lessons hope to break barriers with traditionally homogeneous representation in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). Unfortunately, STEM has not had a diverse representation, especially in terms of women and people of various races of the nondominant culture. With the integration of music, a language spoken by all, I hope to make more connections with my students so that they can be inspired to want to learn more about STEM, make careers or even just appreciate STEM fields, and change our current trajectory.
Half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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