MURFREESBORO — Take
STEM … science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Add the arts and it
turns STEM into STEAM.
More than 30 Murfreesboro and Rutherford Country youngsters
in grades K-7 are experiencing STEAM Week at MTSU this week.
Sponsored by the Tennessee STEM Education Center, STEAM Week
is an art- and dance-focused camp combined with STEM, with the added discipline
of visual arts. Students are being exposed to different art forms including
mural design, ceramics, clay, oil paints and more.
For Annie Frierson, 10, a rising sixth-grader at
Mitchell-Neilson Elementary School, it not only “was really fun,” but “I
learned a lot about art and learned about coding. We played with robots in the
technology lab.”
Frierson has attended Camp STEM at MTSU, but this was her
first time to be a part of STEAM Week.
Activities included:
• Building “doodling robots” (robots drawing for the
children).
• A visit from artist Jonathan Garner, who brought the
science of explosion.
• Exploring the science of music with Hobgood Elementary
teacher Corynn Moore and Matthew Pyles from Harpeth Hall School in Nashville.
• The science of dance led by instructor Heather Brown, an
educational assistant at Mitchell-Neilson.
• A visit by Murfreesboro City Police Department’s SWAT team
robot.
The group will visit the MTSU Engineering Technology
laboratories and learn about solar boats, lunar rovers and more.
Part of July 19’s activities were filmed by Nashville’s WNPT
for airing at a later date.
To learn about future Camp STEM and STEAM Weeks at MTSU,
visit http://www.campstem.us/about-us/,
email David Lockett at David.Lockett@mtsu.edu
or info@campSTEM.us or call
615-569-5904.
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