Harrison Park Elementary School conducts monthly STEAM projects called “Junk Box Wars.”
STEAM activities incorporate science, technology, engineering, art, and math into one lesson. The Junk Box Wars projects encourage students to use their scientific knowledge to create and design a device. Students in kindergarten through fifth-grade work with a partner and are given a design challenge and a bag of “junk” to create a device that solves a specified task.
April’s challenge was called “Eggstravaganza.” The students were tasked with making a set of tongs, and then working together with their partners to carry as many Easter eggs as they could to a basket.
Winners were named from each grade level, and the students enjoyed the educational project.
Kindergarteners Owen Frontz and Aubrey Walker
2nd-graders Poppy Oberman and Emilia Migitsch
Jordyn Sedlak and Willow Simpson
2nd-graders Bradley Lentz and Dawson Grominski
2nd-grader Aemon Peterson adds an egg to his basket
Third graders Brody Fasso and Sam Pallitto
3rd-graders Guy Nutt and Chase Hileman
3rd-graders Lucy Masarelli and Addison Simak
Third graders Helena Sever and Addison Comer