AVHS FIRST Robotics Team Invade Cedar Park

The Knights of the Valley, Attack on Robot and the Regal Kiwis FIRST Robotics teams provided some fun hands on robotics activities for students at a Cedar Park Elementary family STEM night event.  Outreach is a key component of the FIRST program.  

Apple Valley FIRST is seeking to 

grow FIRST programs at all Apple Valley schools and beyond. 

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Apple Valley Rotary and Chamber - E3STEM LinkedIn Workshop

Thank you to members of the Apple Valley Rotary and Chamber of Commerce for providing a LinkIn training workshop at Apple Valley High School for AVID and E3 STEM students.  

This kind of support is very valuable to our program and ultimately our students. 

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Iron Maidens Invade Best Buy Headquarters!

Thank you to Best Buy for inviting the 

Iron Maidens FIRST Tech Challenge robotics team to provide a demonstration.  

These AVHS girls also were able to shadow various Best Buy employees based upon their career interests.  Those were powerful learning experiences from the girls.  

This is a great example of how AVHS is working to more fully integrate business partnerships into its emerging STEM programming for students. 

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E3 STEM Students Receive Hands On Tour At Dakota County Technical College

E3 STEM students learned about Nanotechnology, Healthcare, Energy Technology and other education for employment programs at 

Dakota County Technical College.  

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AVHS Teachers & Corporate Partners Present at STEM Conference

Member of the AVHS Fab Lab team and Dave Donarski from Best Buy For Education provided a workshop at the 

MN STEM Network Conference to show how we have developed our Fab Lab.
Thank you to Best Buy and our many other corporate partners for supporting this great new learning space.  

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AVHS Fab Lab Advisory Board meeting at Valley Middle School of STEM

Great meeting at Valley Middle School of STEM for our last AVHS STEM Advisory Board meeting.  

Students and staff provided many examples of how VMSS is evolving into a STEM magnet school that houses dynamic learning in all areas of their school. 

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AVHS Knights Of The Valley robotics Team Shines at MN North Star Regional Competition

Knights Captain Brenden Groff with Squires

The Knights invited 60 students from Southview Elementary to come to the MN North Star Regional and scout for their team.  This is just one of many STEM outreach activities performed by the Knights this season.  The team shined on the field too.  
Their robot earned a 5-3 record in qualification matches. 

 Squires with St. Paul robotics team.  Really enjoying "pit" scouting!

 Squire hard at work scouting for the Knights!

Just to cute not to add this one!

Excellent scouting work by the Squires.

Good Luck to AVHS Knights of the Valley at Competition

Best of luck to the AVHS Knights of the Valley FIRST Robotics team at their upcoming regional competition April 7-9.  They will compete with 60 other teams at Mariucci Arena.  

Admission is free!  Stop down and cheer on our Knights! 

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Teachers from AVHS, VMSS and Cedar Park working with Stratasys to teach others how to effectively integrate 3D printer technology into education. 

HOW 3D PRINTING INSPIRES 8TH GRADERS TO EXPLORE STEM CAREERS.  View Article

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AVHS Iron Maidens FTC teams advance to World Championship Competition

The Apple Valley High School FIRST Tech Challenge team - Iron Maidens competed at the North Super Regional Competition late in March and won a series of awards.  

They were the first place winner of the Connect Award.  This award honors the outreach a team has completed to fulfill the mission for the FIRST program.  This mission of FIRST is to promote STEM in order to inspire more young people to pursue STEM careers. 

This Connect Award qualifies the Iron Maidens to compete at the FIRST World Championships later in St. Louis later in April!

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E3 STEM Mentor Kickoff Event

Adult professional volunteer mentors from the community met the students they are partnered with for the E3 STEM mentor program last week at this kickoff event.  

These mentors will connect with their students once a month for a year to help guide them through their career exploration efforts.  Thank you to all of these wonderful volunteers!  We have no doubt you will help change the lives of these young people. 

E3 STEM is a grant program funded by the Department of Labor through a program called Youth Career Connect.

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E3 STEM Social Media Workshop #1 - Social Media Footprint.

ISD 196 Attorney Jill Coyle talking with E3 STEM students about the importance of social media in the employment process.  Students learned how important it is to consider their social media footprint as it relates to employment.  

E3 STEM is a grant funded by a Department of Labor program called Youth CareerConnect.  

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Math in Civics? An Example of STEM For All at AVHS

Social Studies teacher Alex Ross working with freshman in Civics to organize election data graphically 

and then learning to critically analyze the information to make informed decisions.  

STEM For ALL in action at AVHS!

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