When posed with how to make our transportation system more efficient, cleaner, or safer, our fourth and fifth-grade STEM Challenge participants were up for the task!

Twenty students, broken into five teams of four, got to work. After a total of 12 or more hours of afterschool brainstorming, designing, planning, journaling, and creating, each team submitted their projects to be judged on March 18th. 

After a thorough evaluation, the IU20 judges announced that one of our teams was awarded first place in the Regional IU20 Stem Challenge in the grades 4-5 Division! Congratulations to our winning team members, Aiza Akbar '29, Devi '29 and Shanti Patel '29, and Elizabeth Goodman '29. They will now be able to enter the State Competition on May 13th.

On Tuesday, April 12th, Colonial Intermediate Unit 20 representatives, the Challenge sponsors, traveled to the Lower School to congratulate the winning team and bestow the 2022 Regional Champion STEM Design Award. All of the participants were acknowledged and the winning team excitedly shared their design and their experiences with their fourth and fifth grade peers.

Their advisors, Mr. DiMenichi and Mr. Pomeroy, are extremely proud of all of the STEM Challenge participants for their creativity, perseverance, effort, and vision. All of the teams demonstrated the ability to collaboratively problem solve, develop and execute a plan, document their collective journey, and concisely summarize their projects in a two minute video presentation. What an amazing journey!

Please wish them well as the team competes against the 29 PA Regional Champions for the State Championship in May!