Gangkar Rinchen used clay Wednesday to sculpt the superhero he wants to be: A guy with a cape who can jump from page to page in comic books, giving him the advantage he needs to take out the most dangerous villains. The rising fifth grader at Longmont’s Flagstaff Academy made the figure during St. Vrain […]
Gov. Jared Polis helped with a second-grade lesson on quantum technology that included jelly beans, Oreos and Legos during a Monday visit to the Innovation Center of St. Vrain Valley Schools for World Quantum Day. Polis and Elevate Quantum also used the visit to announce the release of the Blueprint for Advancing K–12 Quantum Information […]
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – High school students working out of the St. Vrain Innovation Center built, coded and coordinated a light show with 300 drones above the Broadmoor Lake for some of the brightest space minds across the world. “To see high school students be able to take hundreds of drones and actually make […]
Erie High senior Kayla Evans and Niwot High junior Katelin VonFeldt are looking to help NASA address isolation challenges for astronauts by combining virtual reality and sensory-based memory triggers with exercise. They’re creating the project for NASA HUNCH, a program that engages high school and college students in real-world research and development for space missions.
St. Vrain Valley this week is sharing its innovation successes with other school districts from around the country. The three-day Leadership Institute for Transformative Education, hosted by St. Vrain Valley in partnership with the Colorado Education Initiative, wraps up Thursday. Held at the district’s Innovation Center in Longmont, the conference includes school visits, Innovation Center program tours, […]
Secondary schools in St. Vrain Valley Schools are hosting open houses to answer questions and share information about the many program offerings available across the district as families begin planning their transition to middle and high school next year. Below are upcoming open house dates across the district. For questions regarding open houses, programming, or […]
Incoming Lyons Middle School seventh grader Avery Gibson is spending the week meeting “really cool” socially assistive robots and learning to code one. Working with a classmate, her mission was to give a small robot a fun personality and code it to lead people through games that include charades and truth or dare.
About 50 middle and high school students spent the week learning ways that technology and music intersect at St. Vrain Valley’s Innovation Center. “We’re using design thinking to look at how we can use music to add or change value,” said instructor Kyle Liss, who is Frederick High School’s orchestra director and a professional musician. […]
St. Vrain Valley’s Longmont Innovation Center is buzzing this week, between a dozen district high schoolers and more than 300 drones. “I was like, this is cool,” Longmont High School sophomore Reese Wieder said. “I really want to be a part of this.” Ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, high schoolers are putting their heads together […]
About 30 St. Vrain Valley students spent Thursday learning how to set up and take down a drone show in the field behind the Innovation Center, wrangling equipment, setting 300 drones in a precise grid and troubleshooting. The district’s new student-led drone performance team was getting ready for its first public show, which will start […]
