Tyee Middle School students are getting hands-on cybersecurity experience and coaching thanks to former students and current Interlake Cybersecurity team members. About 40 Tyee students have been coming together as part of teacher James Burke’s STEM Club to learn about cybersecurity – from cryptography to coding, web exploitation and more.Read More
In the spring of 2019, six Cherry Crest students decided to “make recess better” and launched a plan to raise funds for the school. Selling donuts door to door, the students donated nearly $500 to the elementary school. After surveying their classmates, the consensus improvement was to add Gaga Ball pits for students to use during recess.Read More
Well before setting foot in a classroom as a computer science teacher, Chad Magendanz had huge impacts on the lives of teachers and students across Washington State. Currently, he teaches computer science at Odle Middle School and Sammamish High School with conditional certification as part of CWU’s Alternative Pathways to Teaching Program.Read More
Sherwood Forest had an enriching experience at Inspiration Park for their first ever all-grades PACIFIC field trip! They visited this playground in particular because it was recently remodeled to include accessible playground structures. There were over forty students who attended from the PACIFIC program and from the school’s robotics team.Read More
In December 2018 David Tomihiro, an English teacher at Bellevue High School, attended the Bellevue School District’s Safety Academy training. At that time, he did not know that six months later he would be utilizing those skills in a real-life emergency.Read More
Lake Hills classes became two of only three classrooms in the world to beta test Minecraft’s “Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Good” lesson on how computational thinking and programming are used in the real world to solve problems such as controlling the spread of wildfires.Read More
Talk to the staff from International Community Health Services (ICHS) and the Highland Middle School Health Center and they have a lot of powerful stories despite that the health center is only in its third year of operation. Staff and health practitioners give students access to care, but they also help to teach students to advocate for themselves.Read More
This month the classroom walls are being painted, the commons area has been framed and the mechanical, electrical and plumbing is nearing completion.Read More
