Students at St. Vrain Valley Schools are traveling to southern Colorado this week to teach young people about STEM opportunities. When Owen Willis welcomes fellow students into St. Vrain Valley Schools’ Mobile Innovation Lab, one of the first things he notices is their curiosity. “They’re really just surprised with everything they’re presented with, and excited […]
St. Vrain Valley’s special education department collaborated with the Innovation Center to host the district’s first unified robotics event Tuesday. The school district already offers unified music programs, unified physical education classes and unified sports. Tuesday’s event was an opportunity to make the district’s large robotics program more accessible, organizers said.
A need to protect grandparents and elderly loved ones is the motivation behind a new St. Vrain Valley School District initiative to teach cybersecurity to seniors. Students at the district’s Innovation Center have partnered with the Longmont Senior Center to offer a series of classes that will empower participants to protect themselves.
St. Vrain Valley Schools have hosted 17 robotics tournaments this school year and many students are now preparing for the state robotics competitions in early March. “This season, we’ve had 214 teams throughout St. Vrain — Grades 3 to 12, and about 850 students,” said Alexandra Downing, the district’s robotics program manager. “It’s like a […]
A team of St. Vrain Valley Schools students at the Innovation Center won first place in the fifth annual World Artificial Intelligence Competition for Youth.
High school students manned tables offering a smorgasbord of robots, building materials, coding kits and other high-tech toys on Wednesday at St. Vrain Valley’s Innovation Center, giving elementary students a chance to try some of the district’s technology. “There’s a lot going on here,” said Erie High senior Jared Ingmire, an Innovation Center student designer […]
Two Frederick High School seniors have designed the new website for the Colorado Association for Career and Technical Education after this proposal was selected over professionals from across the state. A team from the Innovation Center, students Owen Willis and Lukas Reck, submitted a proposal to the CACTE to revamp and recreate the website for […]
St. Vrain Valley students considering education as a career will have more options to prepare for a career as secondary science, technology, engineering or math teachers. The St. Vrain Valley School District is part of a new University of Colorado Denver initiative, supported by Apple, to increase access to tech education and expand the district’s […]
East of Main Street, situated near both the Longmont Recreation Center and the Longmont Museum, looms a building of glass and steel. When the sun hits, it could be an architectural drawing brought to reality, with clean lines that evoke a blueprint. That building is the Innovation Center, St. Vrain Valley School District’s hub for […]
