By Bob Strohm
bstrohm@wbcowqel.com
Buckeye Central elementary students were able to spend a portion of their day having fun while they learned as B.C. held their annual STEM day.
Standing for science, technology, engineering and math, B.C.’s STEM Day was hosted by Mark Bishop of the Mobile Ed. Production out of Redford, MI, the STEM Day featured different stations where students learned about holograms, friction, how to build an arch, working of gears, generating power with a bicycle, 3D printing, and robotics.
Helping out at each station were high school students as well as parents.
Senior Laura Metzger explained the purpose behind the STEM Day at Buckeye.
“Just to Teach them how important technology, science, engineering, and math is in the real world, and it applies the concepts of those topics to things we do every day, but they don’t realize what, why, or how it happens,” Metzger said.
With a different class from kindergarten through sixth grade rotating through the gymnasium during each period of the school day, the event would begin with a slight robotics demonstration by Bishop; afterwards he spoke to the students about Sir Isaac Newton’s 3 laws of motion and mechanics while demonstrating the laws at the different stations.
After Bishop’s demonstration the students were then released to check out each of the stations. After participating in the stations the students returned for another robotics demonstration before being released back to their class.