Wesleyan lower school students showcase STEAM skills in interactive event

Wesleyan School lower school students showcased their STEAM skills this month at an interactive event designed to give students a jump start on technology and engineering skills. Third and fourth graders used high level science, technology, engineering, art, and math skills to create interactive games ranging from app designs to iPad games in an event for Wolfie’s Arcade. In the process of creating games for the arcade, students learned programing, robotics, engineering, circuit boards, and scientific method skills. Michael Mann, Wesleyan’s Lower School Instructional Technology Teacher, instructed to students to brainstorm an idea, make a prototype, test it and collaborate, then revise. Once all the revisions were complete, the games were displayed throughout the lower school where students and parents were invited to come play the designs. The event not only provided an advanced, hands-on learning experience for the younger students, it also benefited the school’s mission trip program. Nearly 200 students and staff travel around the world on Spring Break to serve on mission trips. Each year, Wesleyan lower school students write letters to the middle and high school students who are traveling. This year, the students also collected coins from the arcade to help fund the mission trips. They raised nearly $1,700.

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