STEM Dedication and Tour
Posted November 10, 2015 at 7:25 pm by Tim Dustrude
Kevin Ranker takes a ride on a roller coaster with the STEM Center’s Virtual Reality goggles and successfully keeps his lunch down. (Editor’s Note: “I gotta get me one of these!”) – Tim Dustrude photo
Midi Thomas presents Kevin Ranker with a plaque of appreciation for all of Kevin’s hard work to secure funding for the STEM center – Tim Dustrude photo
Washington State Senator Kevin Ranker was on the island Tuesday and attended a dedication and tour of the high school’s new STEM center.
Senator Ranker was influential in his support for the state grant funding needed to remodel the building from a wood shop/auto mechanics shop/storage facility to a state of the art STEM Learning Center for 21st century application of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathmatics.
A number of students were there to show off projects they have been working on with various demonstrations.
It was really amazing to see what we now have to offer right here on our small, little island for these kids to be learning from.
The presentation and tour was very impressive. If you are at all interested in technology and where things are heading, I highly recommend you pop in and say hi to Derek Smith who would be happy to show you what all they’re up to. Fun stuff. Click for more photos…
Derek Smith and Fred Woods get the demonstration started with an overview of the new STEM Center – Tim Dustrude photo
Ana Anderson (L) and Rachel May (R) show Kevin an intersection of Art and Technology with a Photoshop demonstration – Tim Dustrude photo
Carlos Jimenez demonstrates a 3-D modeling program and explains how a fully operational prosthetic finger, for example, can be printed out on a 3-D Printer – Tim Dustrude photo
Matias Franklin shows off some Computer Game Designs – Tim Dustrude photo
Austin Grimes pilots a radio controlled mini quad copter (that white thing there in front of him) complete with an on-board video camera – Tim Dustrude photo
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