STEM Projects Enhance Student Learning

As part of a new STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) program with Kid Zone, Meramec Elementary fourth-and fifth-grade students put on their hard hats this spring for a fun construction project funded by the Clayton Education Foundation. The students accepted the challenge of building a 12-inch long bridge out of toothpicks, with the goal of having the least expensive bridge that would hold
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