BUBBLE TROUBLE?

That's what Bowers' STEM specialist Laura Becker calls her  "I love science" face!

Her comments:

"I was so excited to be put 'inside' a bubble as a finale to our amazing CT Science Center demonstration assembly (which was held on 1-23-17). Students had some first hand experiences with scientific phenomena! Did you know you can toss bubbles if you are wearing gloves? Have you ever tried to make bubbles with different shapes? Can you put your hand through a bubble without it popping? All these questions and more were answered during our learning time!"

GRADE 5 ROBOTICS

The Martin team won the Judges Award.

Manchester Public Schools Elementary VEX IQ Robotics Club held their first robotics tournament on Saturday, January 21st at Illing Middle School. The Elementary VEX IQ Robotics Club is an after school program that is only open to 5th grade students to participate. We had close to 200 people that attended our event, which included 57 students participating in the tournament. 

All nine elementary schools represented with a total of 25 competing robots. We ran two competition playing fields to run all of our matches and the qualifying rounds. At the end of the tournament we held an award ceremony and acknowledge the following teams:  

Awards:

Teamwork Award - Verplanck Robot 18

Teamwork Award - Robertson Robot 16

Design Award - Buckley Robot 5

Excellence Award - Highland Park Robot 9

Judges Award - Martin Robot 14

Please check out the district Facebook page for more!

Scenes from Verplanck's pre-tournament preparations.