The Verde Institute partnered with Grand Canyon Youth, NRCD Environmental Education Center, AZ State Parks Family Campout program, and Audubon Arizona to bring the VRI Macroinvertebrate Sampling program to conduct a Macroinvertebrate Assessment. Macroinvertebrates are organisms that live underwater in our streams and rivers, lack a backbone, and can be
Over the summer The Tonto Creek Camp started a Summer STEAM Camp in the City of Payson. This event was created to allow students access to different science, technology, engineering, arts, and math activities as well as give them hands-on activities that take them into the natural world and helps
In October 2017, the Show Low Public Library became a collaborator of the community by launching a public makerspace. In March of 2018, the library created a set of astronomy-oriented grab and go activities, programming and resources supporting their NASA community grant. These grab and go kits allowed students to
With Cochise County students out of school on Fridays, Huachuca City Library wanted to offer more resources to keep children engaged and inspired. In order to do so, they partnered with AZ Rural Activation & Innovation Network (RAIN) to get funding for STEAM Fridays. How did they do it?
Wanting to bring more STEM resources to the Sierra Vista Community, the Patterson Observatory and University of Arizona Southern Foundation collaborated to place a mini science center in an unused section of the Patterson Observatory. How did they do it? By partnering with The Huachuca Astronomy Club, several local
Hoping to educate students on Hydroponics and gardening, the Native American Ministry Schools applied for a grant through the Arizona Rural Activation and Innovation Network (RAIN) to host a workshop and develop a hydroponics garden. The workshop was offered in the White Mountains and developed a hydroponics garden through a
Eastern Arizona College, in collaboration with Gila Valley Healthcare, debuted the Gila Valley Health and STEAM Festival to the Gila Valley region in 2017 and continues to support its presence in 2019. This event hosts over 1,800 people with activities throughout the day, centered around science, technology, engineering, the arts,
In June 2018, Camp Verde became one of the world’s 20th International Dark Sky Communities. With this designation, Camp Verde created the Dark Sky Committee to begin planning and hosting the Inaugural Camp Verde Dark Sky Festival. Partnerships with the Verde Valley Archaeology Center, Astro Verde Astronomy Club, Camp Verde
Duncan High School’s after-school engineering club along with the Willcox STEM club partnered up to utilize STEM practices to compete in a NASA challenge. The NASA Design Challenge tasked participants with designing an International Space Settlement. How did they do it? In partnership with Duncan Unified Schools, the Town of
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