Are you participating in #HourOfCode ? All kids K-5 at Cedar Park STEM are doing @hourofcode all month long! This week is national computer science 🤖 #CSweek where all students K-12 globally 🌎 are encouraged to try & jump into #coding 👩🏾‍💻because of glaring statistics like this:

Our 4th graders braved the cold 🥶 and nasty winds 🌬 and used their knowledge of geocaching🧭, latitude & longitude 🌎 to complete Mr. Staum’s Tech class challenge! All waypoints found ✅ 👍👍 #CPstem #196pride

Cedar Park News Team assemble! Our first set of excited and esteemed 4th & 5th grade members of CPN gathered for the first time this week to start planning our first broadcast of the year, which we hope will be by mid November! Stay tuned! 🎥 📰 📺 #CPstem #196pride

In technology class, our techie first graders exploring community and collaboration with their iPads & Padlet by posting to Mr. Staum’s blog about their favorite tech tools to learn with at school and at home! @ISD196schools

3rd gr jumped into animal adaptations today & became mad scientists by creating their own fictional animal out of 4 different real animal adaptations-head body tail- w/ SwitchZoo website!Kids will use this for their next STEM project where they build this animal w/ @microbit_edu

5th gr in Mrs. Banken’s class working hard w/ their student teacher, Ms. Garrett collaborating on math skills in real time using whitboard.fi Kids are casting their work to her app and kids can see everyone's work without seeing names so it is completely confidential!

Excited to be back! Excited to learn! #196FirstDay #196Pride #CPstem

#196Pride #196FirstDay #CPstem

This Cedar Park News broadcast is our last, but fun ZOOM interview w/ some our CPN kids. So spur of the moment the CPN kids wanted us all to use random props for our broadcast. Thx for a great year CPN(we did our best!) 😊 youtu.be/iPjZ1_YeLn0 @ISD196schools @ISD196Magnets

A Big THANK YOU to Dr. Tanya Harrison @tanyaofmars a planetary scientist for our awesome @zoom_us session today w/ all of 3rd grs about Mars, rovers, mars-quakes! & answering our ?s about our solar system unit of study🪐! A fun real-time STEM expert #collaboration @ISD196schools