Category: STEM

Empowered by a desire to create a more inclusive world, a passionate group of St. Vrain Valley Schools (SVVSD) students are gearing up to host the district’s first-ever Inclusion Night. Led by high school students Anya Wieder, Claire Schultz, and Whitney Zanini, with the support of teachers Liz Wieder, Erin Quakenbush, and Nathalie Tuhari-Katz, the […]

Visit the Innovation Center to participate in Level Up webinars and CSED Week online activites >> St. Vrain Valley School students and staff are invited to celebrate Computer Science Education Week (CSED Week) through a series of engagement opportunities available online including robot programming, code writing, and live virtual sessions with industry partners highlighting different […]

Once again, Westview students are finding a way. Our students recognized that we need to support our community, and that this is even more important during this pandemic. So we have worked together to find a way.  We will hold our canned food drive again this year, but like so many things it will be […]

  Should wolves roam the Rockies once again? – a look at Colorado Proposition 114, Gray Wolf Reintroduction Initiative Westview Middle School 8th grade students have been working hard to learn about human impacts on earth and democracy through the State science standard:       Grade 8  – Unit 5  Human activities have altered the biosphere, sometimes […]

Dear St. Vrain Valley Community, Thank you for your partnership and support as we continue to navigate the evolving coronavirus pandemic. Over the past several months, numerous members of our community have expressed vastly different thoughts, opinions and suggestions related to our learning models for delivering instruction. We are very appreciative of all of this […]

Most of you know that Westview is a STEM school.  One of  Westview’s  STEM programs is called Plains to the Park.  Since 2014, this program has been collecting data about the animals that live in northern Colorado’s Front Range and how that is changing over time. Plains to the Park also provides students with the […]

Dear St. Vrain Valley Community, Thank you for your partnership and support as we continue to navigate the evolving coronavirus pandemic. We remain continuously connected and strongly aligned with our local and state health agency partners, including Boulder County Public Health, the Metro Denver Partnership for Health, and the Colorado Department of Public Health, and […]

Dear St. Vrain Valley Community, Thank you for your continued partnership during this challenging time for our community. Over the past several months, we have been working closely with our county and state health agency partners, as well as the Governor’s Office, to navigate the complex and continually evolving coronavirus pandemic and its impact on […]

On January 29 students in our Earth Explorers STEM Block gathered to premiere the short films that they created in collaboration with University of Colorado and NCAR scientists.  The students presented to the audience about their experiences and what they had learned. Then each film was shown. As a part of this process students went […]

The Innovation Center of St. Vrain Valley Schools is hosting its first-ever Community STEM Night event from 4:30-7:30 p.m. on Friday, December 13. Pre-K through fifth grade students and families are invited to participate in hands-on STEM activities, tours, and fun. Students can design, experiment, build, and invent through coding, engineering, creating, and science activities that empower them […]