Community school hosts STEAM camp
Ramona Community School hosted two one-week STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) camps for first- through eighth-graders.
The camps, held the last two weeks in June, featured classes that taught students the basics of each subject through lectures and hands-on experiments.
For example, students in James Dukes teacher Grant McNiff’s class spent time learning the skills needed to sketch and draw landscape pictures when taking into consideration the background, mid-ground and foreground of the scene.
Students in Hanson Elementary teacher Melissa Ferguson’s class took a day to learn about Newton’s third law of motion by building and testing bottle rockets.
“This is just a hands-on, fun way of testing that law,” Ferguson said.
The first camp was last week, and the second ended Friday, July 1, with classes from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. each day.