Editing STEM at Sagamore (section)

==Programs==

* Check out [[Robotics|Fernbank LINKS (robotics)]]
* Organize Sagamore Family Observatory night at Fern Bank Science Center (Thursday and Friday Nights Weather Permitting)
* Organize a 15 minute video confrence with mission control? http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/index.html 
* Camp invention at Sagamore? http://www.invent.org/camp/parentsbringcamp.aspx

===X-STEM Team===

http://www.usasciencefestival.org/

# Find interested parents and students
# Designate parent X-STem coordinator
# Register Sagamore as an X-Stem School

===DeKalb County Science and Engineering Fair===

(5th Grade only one student or submission)

These dates are wrong and not updated for 2013-2014

# September 4, 2012: Science representatives attend information session/receive application packets and directions  (Administrative Instructional Complex, 3:00 pm)
# January 18, 2013: Last day to hold school-based fair
# January 22, 2013: All paperwork for projects entering the DeKalb Regional Fair due at district office.
# February 8, 2013: DeKalb Science and Engineering Regional Novice Division (Elementary Schools) Fair, Location: Clarkston HS Set-up on February 8th, 3:30 – 4:30 PM) 

http://fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us/~CHRISTOPHER_J_ROBINSON/?OpenItemURL=S0F2E149E

===NASA Exploration Design Challenge===

'''See the [[NASA Exploration Design Challenge]] page''' (maybe move this section content to there and link to that page from here?)

K-5, and 5th Grade Due March 14, 2014

By completing the registration, student names are added to a list of all students participating in the NASA Exploration Design Challenge. The list of names will fly on the inaugural Orion EFT-1 as honorary, virtual crew members. The virtual crew will be the only crew flying on EFT-1. Students must be registered by March 14, 2014, to join the virtual crew.

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/spacelife/explorationdesign/k-4/index.html#.UhTkX3_heUZ

===Fernbank Science Center===

SEMAA The SEMAA program at Fernbank Science Center is sponsored by a grant from NASA Education. Students in grades kindergarten through 12th grade are eligible to participate in this free science academic program designed to increase interest and participation in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. 

http://www.fernbank.edu/SEMAA/Calender.htm