Sandy Springs public school students must really enjoy math, as 60 pupils in grades 4, 5 and 6 volunteered to spend a Saturday competing in the High Point Elementary School’s Second Annual Hound Bowl Math Tournament. The event, sponsored by Sandy Springs Education Force (SSEF), was free for all participating students. The program was sanctioned […]
8th Annual Sandy Springs Education Force STEAM Showcase
Our 8th annual STEAM Showcase, held at North Springs Charter High School on March 14th, was a huge success! We hosted over 1600 high school and middle school students during the day and over 800 community members and elementary school students at the public evening event. As always, the showcase featured engaging, interactive exhibits and the […]
Best Slime Recipe Ever
We had a great time meeting so many members of our community at the 32nd annual Heritage Sandy Springs Festival! If you visited our booth, you had a chance to check out the “best slime ever,” on display at our table. Heather Kaufman, a member of our board of directors, experimented with her young daughter […]
Dunwoody Springs Solar Club Participants Demonstrate Teamwork and Learn About Solar Energy
New challenges, teamwork and demonstrating love for the earth while aspiring to learn how to conserve resources. It’s a typical afternoon at the Dunwoody Springs Elementary School’s after-school Solar Club! The club, supported by an SSEF STEAM Legacy Grant, filled to overflow capacity and added a second session to accommodate the interested students. This semester, 19 […]
SSEF STEAM Showcase Provides Hands-On and Virtual Experiences
Have you always wanted to build and interact with virtual circuit boards? Do you enjoy finding clues, solving puzzles and cracking codes? Does it sound exciting to learn to build machines that emulate human activity? Our STEAM Showcase, March 15th, from 6-8 pm at North Springs Charter High School, provides these opportunities and much, much more! The […]