
RISE Stem Academy for Girls
Clip: Season 3 Episode 183 | 3m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
Some tiny scholars get opportunity to put their scientific studies to the test.
Kindergarteners with RISE STEM Academy for Girls in Lexington recently visited an assisted living facility to test their game designs, all to help get senior citizens moving.
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RISE Stem Academy for Girls
Clip: Season 3 Episode 183 | 3m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
Kindergarteners with RISE STEM Academy for Girls in Lexington recently visited an assisted living facility to test their game designs, all to help get senior citizens moving.
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Kindergartners with ries stem Academy for Girls in Lexington recently visited an assisted living facility to test their game designs, all to help get seniors moving.
We take a look at the results and tonight's Education Matters Reports.
Rise is a very special place to be a part of.
We are an all girls school and we really work on empowering young women to know that they can do anything they set their mind to.
And of course, we have a heavy STEM focus, so the girls get to do a lot of project based learning, which gives them their opportunity to show their knowledge.
And more than just taking a standardized test, which is a pretty cool thing.
Each quarter we have project based learning that we do based on our Kentucky standards.
This standard is on push and pull, so our scholars learn the background of what a push is, what a pull is, and how we make things go faster or slower.
And then we get into groups and we start thinking about how can we bring this to the real world?
So what you're seeing is they actually created games for the purpose of helping the elder community be able to move and work on therapy.
So each scholar had to think of arcade games that they wanted to build.
And how are they going to incorporate that push and pull?
Our game is guacamole.
And on this side, someone has to hold one inside and another person at the other side.
And then the.
People who are playing the games, they take the sticks.
And they hear the Oh, did you hear like push down the food noodles that we could pull?
So the portal.
Can say, I'm helping the elderly people on the limb and their hand with guacamole.
So we tell them how to work it out and they're doing great.
We thought it was going to be easy for the elderly people, so we made that dash and all this.
Daisy is of course, what to heart.
Sisters and poor littles.
I have just seen joy across everyone, the community members that are here are inside, excited to interact with the girls and really just to get to know them as well as play with them.
And I didn't realize that it was going to be a moment just to have a conversation and really get to know their elder community and build that relationship.
And then my scholars have surprised me because we practice and practice and I just wasn't sure what it's going to turn out to be.
But they did amazing.
They really did.
I would just like to say STEM Girls grow.
No argument here.
STEM girls rock and look at all those smiles.
Now to up the cuteness factor.
You may have heard the girls make reference to guacamole and the story, or they're actually trying to say Whac-A-Mole, as in the game, whack a mole.
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