Tuesday Pitt county Schools move one step closer to being ready to use their new STEM labs this school year.
Teachers and administrators will learn how to properly use the technology in the new labs. The classes are self taught through different modules and online tutorials as an encore class in addition to student’s core classes and works to prepare participating students with skills they can use later in life.
“We’re very excited about the STEM labs and what they have to offer,” E.B. Aycock Principal Janarde Cannon said. “In the grand scheme of things, in order to increase student’s success, you must create various opportunities for different kinds of learning and the stem lab certainly offers an avenue for these students to expand upon their knowledge of careers so they may be able to get a jump start before they even get to high school or college.”
E.B. Aycock, Ayden Middle and C.M. Eppes are the first three Pitt County Schools to have operational stem labs. The county is working to add more labs to other middle schools periodically in the years to come.
“You have three schools with a large number of students that will go through the program,” Pitt County C.T. Coordinator Beth Ann Trueblood said. “Our goal is that we know not all of our students are going to have this program every single year but our goal is to be in the class at least one time before they get out of middle school.”
The labs were made possible by a $1.25 million Golden LEAF grant. Local businesses are also getting on board to help students with hands-on skills they hope will later be applied in real life situations.
