STEAM Night
Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math
STEAM Fair and Art Auction
Thursday April 23rd 6-8 pm
🌟 Have Fun at the Community STEAM Night while exploring science, technology, engineering, art, and math!
🍽️ Delicious Eats On-Site – Grab dinner while you’re here
🍧 Kona Ice of Maple Valley – Cool off with refreshing, customizable shaved ice in a rainbow of flavors! A fun treat for kids and adults alike. Learn More
🍔 Jessica’s Unique Bite Burgers – Savor gourmet smash burgers with creative toppings that take classic comfort food to the next level! Check them out
🐔 Chick'n Fix
🎉 Hands-on STEAM activities with DigiPen
🎨 Art displays: Yearbook Cover submissions, artwork from each class & reflections
🔬Tesla Science Olympiad
🤖 Robotics demos with TMS
♟️Giant Chess board from Excell w/ Chess
🏅Math Challenge winners announced
🌱 Garden Club- The Garden Club will be selling veggie starts at the event! Whether you're a seasoned gardener or just getting started, stop by to pick up some seedlings and bring a little green into your home.
🎵 Ella Baker Band will be performing
🖍 Little Green Acres craft table
🎉Don’t miss out, it's going to be a blast!
STEAM Fair:
The STEAM Fair is an exciting opportunity for students to have a hands-on learning experience using their creativity, problem solving skills, & the scientific method. Whether it’s a chemistry experiment, an engineering marvel, a biology breakthrough, or an alternative project that focuses on one of the other STEAM areas (technology, engineering, art or math), all students are welcome to participate!
To submit a project to the STEAM Fair check out below for:
Art Auction:
Ella Baker’s 1st annual Art Auction will also be held at STEAM night this year! Each class created one collaborative art piece.
Bidding- April 20-26
winners- announced April 27th
Ella Baker STEAM Fair Rules and Instructions
PROJECT REGISTRATION IS DUE BY SUNDAY APRIL 19TH BY FILLING OUT THIS FORM.
The STEAM Fair is part of our STEAM Night (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, & Math) on Thur April 23rd.
○ 5:30-6:00pm: Project check-in and set-up time in the cafeteria
○ 8:00-8:30pm: Project clean-up time
Notes
● Students may work on projects individually or with a partner
● Students may stand by their project to present/demonstrate if desired
● Students have a max of 36 inches by 15 inches of table space to display their STEAM fair projects.
● Projects must be free standing, a tri-fold poster board (size 36”x48”) is recommended
● All students will receive a participation certificate.
● Since these are home projects, it’s a good idea to get started right away! Plan a schedule so that your project is completed on time.
● Parents: You are your child’s guide, mentor, and coach, however this STEAM fair project is an opportunity for your child to learn and use their creativity, so please let them lead, please do not control their project, and please do not do the work for them. Thanks!
● Failure is an integral part of the scientific process. Sometimes students discover their hypothesis was proven wrong. We encourage students to show pictures of their experiments that failed before reaching the final stage. (Thomas Edison said when discovering the light bulb, “I have not failed 10,000 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”)
● Be creative in coming up with a topic that interests you in STEAM in one of the 3 types of STEAM fair projects: observation, experiment, or invention. Then have FUN!
● If your family requires assistance in purchasing supplies (ex: trifold, etc), please email the School Counselor Melissa Foss (mfoss@lwsd.org)
Rules
○ Safety is a top priority for the STEAM fair and anything deemed to pose a danger will not be allowed. Projects may not include the use of dangerous chemicals, extreme temperatures, high voltage, explosives, mercury thermometers, open flames, certain lasers or other very bright light sources, fluorescent light bulbs, molds, mildews, volcanoes, running water (static water is OK), or anything capable of producing dangerous noise levels.
○ Students may CHOOSE to have STEAM fair attendees interact with and touch their project, but nothing is to be put in the mouth or tasted at the STEAM fair.
○ Do not bring valuable, breakable, or any items that you are concerned may be lost or damaged. *The school and volunteers are not responsible for any items.
○ Projects involving live animals must be pre-approved and closely monitored by a parent to ensure that the animals are treated kindly and ethically. *Animals may not be brought to the fair. The use of animals in a project may be shown by using photos and videos.