Solana Highlands students experiment, play at STREAM Expo

Solana Highlands School students flexed their creativity and curiosity at a STREAM Expo on March 12.
The expo was a first for Suzanne Miller, a former Solana Highlands parent who is now a science teacher in the STREAM department, specialists who teach kids science, technology, research, engineering, art and math. Throughout the week in Discovery Labs, she gets to see the entire school.
At the expo, students got engaged in a number of activities including a meticulous project to close a circuit that lit up a cat’s eyes, building “earthquake-proof” structures with cardboard paper and straws, making Lego cat creations and programming robotic motorcycles to ride up a ramp or pop a wheelie. Older fourth, fifth and sixth-grade student experts volunteered to help younger students with the activities, including the Spero coding robot balls that rolled and twirled around and on the ground at the kids’ control.
“(The expo) is just about getting kids excited about science and getting them to love STREAM,” Miller said.
As the event was held during a shortened school day on teacher conference week, kids in the after-school program came through in groups and other students stopped in with their parents. The expo was also held on the same night as the Book Fair, allowing time for families to have fun experimenting and then shop the sale that helps the school to fill the library with even more books to engage and inspire.