At our November 2nd Board of Education meeting, Superintendent, Rebecca Gensel shared with the board several newsworthy items.
1) Through the effort of Maggi Emmons, STEM Coach at BCMS, students were able to work with technology developers from Google to become part of their Expeditions Augmented Reality Pioneer Program.
Google is in the process of developing this program and they visited BCMS on Monday and our students were beta testers for the program.
Watch this video to see what happened when Google came to Branchburg.
Go to Google Expeditions to see what Augmented Reality is.
2) Ms. Gensel spoke with Johnson & Johnson and a Smithsonian Institution representative to discuss the opportunity of partnering with J&J to have scientists come into our schools to work with students and talk about what they do in real life.
The intent of the program is to build interest in the STEM fields for students in grades K-12 and to offer mentoring opportunities in the hope that students will pursue STEM careers.
Read more about STEM²D
Smithsonian Science Education Center
3) Our Stony Brook staff is to receive an Education Award at the 16th Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Dinner on November 18th.
They are being honored for their commitment, dedication, kindness and compassion in helping the hurricane victims in Houston, Texas.
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