The future looks bright after visiting the Brown School’s third annual STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) Fair where the next generation showed off their ingenuity and imagination on March 27.
More than 215 students in kindergarten through third grade presented creative projects to a packed gymnasium of proud parents and family members. Brown School teachers, dressed in white lab coats, roamed the aisles handing out ribbons.
First-grader Adeline Frias, 6, walked people through her intricate project, called “How does a chameleon’s tongue work?” It ended with the chameleon eating a pretend fly.
Sage Flaherty, also in first grade, explained how he used a 3-D printer to create a lockbox for his Pokemon cards. He also printed a Pokemon coin and two characters.
Second-grader Carlie Castro, 7, explained how powerful hydraulics can be by squeezing water through a syringe to raise an elevator made of popsicle sticks.
Second-grader Dean Fenty and his partners were especially popular as they offered bowls of extra treats from their candy bridge, which was made out of gumdrops and toothpicks.
First-graders Teagan Horvath and Griffin Cahalane also had candy for curious spectators. They offered gummy seahorses to complement their project on how seahorses breathe underwater.
Caleb Megenedy, 7, held a digital thermometer as he explained exothermic reactions and his project on how hand-warmers work.
Kindergartener Maddie Enscoe, 6, happily showed passerby her project on a leak-proof plastic bag experiment.
“Every year I am floored by our students’ creativity at the STEAM Fair,” Brown Principal Mary Maxfield told the Current. “I am incredibly impressed with our students’ willingness to explore the wonders of science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics, and to be brave enough to display and publicly speak about their learning. I am very grateful to our PTO for their support and to our families for supporting our students’ learning.”
