SUNY Broome has welcomed nearly 250 middle and high school students from 14 local school districts who have been participating in Summer STEAM Academy from July 16 to July 27, 2018. This two-week hands-on program engages students in project-based learning around STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) through the design cycle processes.
Educators from Broome-Tioga BOCES, local school districts and our own SUNY Broome professors Rob Congdon (Chemistry) and Sid Peake (Biology) are teaming up with students to explore and develop projects with fun real-world applications. Some of the challenges include designing, building and testing cardboard boats for relay races, hovercrafts, drawbridges, carnival games, a mini-golf course and more. As part of this program, students will also travel to BOCES for a robotics program, tour Lockheed Martin and meet with engineers, and present their STEAM Academy projects to local engineers from the Eastern Southern Tier STEM Hub and Delta Engineers, Architects, & Land Surveyors.
Maine-Endwell art Teacher Shauna Stiles has worked with the STEAM Academy for several years and she says that it is advantageous to have all of the students working in one place here on the SUNY Broome campus. The students can more easily explore others’ design processes and projects that may relate to their own challenge projects and perhaps be inspired to fuel more creative thinking. 
Visit YouTube Channel shaunastiles to view student prepared STEAM Academy puppet show and stop-motion animations.
