Category: STEM

Empowered by a desire to create a more inclusive world, a passionate group of St. Vrain Valley Schools (SVVSD) students are gearing up to host the district’s first-ever Inclusion Night. Led by high school students Anya Wieder, Claire Schultz, and Whitney Zanini, with the support of teachers Liz Wieder, Erin Quakenbush, and Nathalie Tuhari-Katz, the […]

Visit the Innovation Center to participate in Level Up webinars and CSED Week online activites >> St. Vrain Valley School students and staff are invited to celebrate Computer Science Education Week (CSED Week) through a series of engagement opportunities available online including robot programming, code writing, and live virtual sessions with industry partners highlighting different […]

Dear St. Vrain Valley Community, Thank you for your partnership and support as we continue to navigate the evolving coronavirus pandemic. Over the past several months, numerous members of our community have expressed vastly different thoughts, opinions and suggestions related to our learning models for delivering instruction. We are very appreciative of all of this […]

Dear St. Vrain Valley Community, Thank you for your partnership and support as we continue to navigate the evolving coronavirus pandemic. We remain continuously connected and strongly aligned with our local and state health agency partners, including Boulder County Public Health, the Metro Denver Partnership for Health, and the Colorado Department of Public Health, and […]

Dear St. Vrain Valley Community, Thank you for your continued partnership during this challenging time for our community. Over the past several months, we have been working closely with our county and state health agency partners, as well as the Governor’s Office, to navigate the complex and continually evolving coronavirus pandemic and its impact on […]

5th Grade Math classes learned how to program the new Edison Robots.  At the end of the 55-minute session students could program their robots to drive a straight line, go through a maze, and follow a circle.  5th Grade Science classes took on a Bioengineering simulation to clean-up a toxic environmental spill by creating a […]

Design challenges were taken on by 1st and 2nd grade students. Understanding empathy as the focus, as well as working together and preserving through difficulty, students were tasked with making a chair for Baby Bear from Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The challenge: make a chair out of 4 pieces of paper, masking tape, stands […]

The Innovation Center of St. Vrain Valley Schools is hosting its first-ever Community STEM Night event from 4:30-7:30 p.m. on Friday, December 13. Pre-K through fifth grade students and families are invited to participate in hands-on STEM activities, tours, and fun. Students can design, experiment, build, and invent through coding, engineering, creating, and science activities that empower them […]

The Greatest Gift   Have you ever felt so angry that tears fill your eyes? That’s the state I found myself in as I listened to my own precious children say some hurtful things to me — to me, the woman who birthed them, loved them, fed them, schlepped them places! My mind and mouth were gearing […]

September was a colorful month for kindergarten.  They studied 5 colors: green, yellow, orange, blue, and red. If a staff member wore that particular color during that week, the kindergartners would sing the color song!  As a STEM activity 3rd grade and Kindergartners paired-up and went outside for a Color Photo Scavenger Hunt.  Each K […]