The San Marin High School STEM Marin (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) community is excited to announce the First Annual Rube Goldberg Project Exhibition Night to be held on Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 6:30pm in the San Marin High School library.
STEM Marin, San Marin High School’s newly formed Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math program, opened its doors to sixty ninth grade students last month. Located on the San Marin High School campus, STEM Marin offers a challenging, comprehensive, college-prep high school curriculum highlighting science, technology, engineering, and math curriculum. The program will continue to enroll sixty students each year, building to 240 total students. Project-based learning and use of technology are key instructional strategies integrated into the curriculum. As a small learning community, STEM Marin focuses on developing strong relationships between staff, students, and parents. This makes it possible to offer personalized, hands-on, individual assistance and support to students. When students apply to STEM Marin, they are choosing to enroll in a unique educational setting and committing to high personal and academic expectations.
Rube Goldberg was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, sculptor and author. Best known for his “inventions”, Rube’s early years as an engineer informed his most acclaimed work. A Rube Goldberg contraption – an elaborate set of arms, wheels, gears, handles, cups and rods, put in motion by balls, canary cages, pails, boots, bathtubs, paddles and live animals – takes a simple task and makes it extraordinarily complicated. He had solutions for How To Get The Cotton Out Of An Aspirin Bottle, imagined a Self-Operating Napkin, and created a Simple Alarm Clock – to name just a few of his hilariously depicted drawings. STEM Marin student’s Rube Goldberg projects will demonstrate in a whimsical fashion their understanding of simple machines and the manipulation of kinetic energy through an elaborate contraption to do a simple specified task in the manner of Rube Goldberg. STEM teacher Nick Williams adds,” It’s a thrill to see our students get excited about their learning through the development of their Rube Goldberg projects.”
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Interested students and parents are encouraged to attend one of two informational nights scheduled on Monday, December 9th and Tuesday, December 10th at 7:00pm in the Emily Gates Student Center on the San Marin High School campus.
Student applications will be available online beginning December 1, 2013 at http://sanmarinstem.weebly.com and are due in the San Marin High School Counseling Office no later than Wednesday, January 29, 2014 for consideration for the 2014-15 school year. For more information please contact Assistant Principal Leslie Norinsky at San Marin High School at (415) 898-2121.
