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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - A Mazama High School senior spent a week this fall immersed in hands-on simulations and leadership training at the Honeywell Leadership Challenge Academy at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center.
Read MoreIn an outdoor ceremony on Friday, Mazama High School inducted 21 current freshmen into the school’s STEM&M program, which partners with Oregon Institute of Technology to offer academic pathways in science, technology, engineering, math and medicine.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - Kristalina Derry wants to be a physician, and challenging herself in Mazama’s STEM&M program is just another step towards that goal. “I plan to go to college and go into the medical field so this will help me,” she said.
Read MoreTeams of robotics students from Mazama, Lost River, Bonanza and Henley high schools spent four hours Friday in friendly competition during the Klamath Scrimmage hosted by Mazama Robotics. The goal was to design and program their robots to perform specific tasks within a 2-minute time period.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - Mazama High School and Oregon Tech have expanded the benefits of their STEM&M partnership, adding additional scholarship opportunities, two terms of free tuition and preferential access to selective Oregon Tech programs.
Read MoreIt was the final challenge for students at a week-long science camp: Design and launch a bottle rocket.
Seventh-grader Joseph Jennings was among 25 sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders who were up to task. He inserted a tennis ball at the top of his rocket – putting it inside his two-liter plastic soda bottle – and then used duct tape and glue to create cardboard “fins” to attach to the bottom in hopes of making his design more aerodynamic and stable.
Read MoreAndrew Raebel had been planning to apply for Mazama’s STEM&M program since seventh grade, deciding it was the best way to meet his g oal of going to college.
“I’m not sure what I want to do,” he said, “but it’ll probably be something in the sciences.”
Read MoreThe blender for smoothies at Ferguson’s Annual Family Fun Night needed power – leg power. To get a smoothie, students lined up to take turns on the “Smoothie Bike,” pedaling to blend the fruit and ice into a nutritious drink.
Read MoreThe end of the school year does not mean the end of learning in the Klamath Basin. There are summer schools and camps to keep students learning all summer long.
Read MoreOn June 8, the first class of STEM&M students will graduate from Mazama High School. The program started in 2016 and is a partnership between Mazama and Oregon Tech. Students follow specific pathways toward college degrees and careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Medical.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, OR. - Twenty-nine students signed on the line Wednesday declaring their participation in the STEM&M program, a partnership between Mazama High School and Oregon Tech.
Read MoreThe STEM&M program at Mazama High School prepares students with the knowledge to grow in the Science, Technology, Engineering, Math & Medical fields after they leave high school. Mario Segura and Matt Volpe are two students of the STEM&M program and together they organized the first ever STEMonstration at Mazama HS to recruit Freshman into the program.
Read MoreOn Monday, 30 Mazama High School seniors made big strides toward their future after high school.
“You guys are right on the brink. You’re at the end of your senior year and you can see graduation coming,” said Ashlie Pence, Oregon Tech interim assistant director of admissions, said to the room of Mazama seniors. “You’re so excited.”
Pence led the students through the Oregon Tech Fly-In, where they applied for college, learned about and applied for scholarships, took tours of their specific departments with Oregon Tech students and met staff and faculty to help them start their college careers.
Read MoreMazama students show how program is helping them prepare for the future Gov. Kate Brown has a vision for Oregon students: they finish high school with a plan in mind for their future.
On a recent visit to Mazama High School, Oregon Department of Education Acting Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction Colt Gill said he saw STEM&M students fulfilling Brown’s
vision.
“It was clear to me that STEM&M was not only helping them stay engaged in high school as they worked toward graduation, but was also introducing them to a number of future possibilities from coding, to medical imaging, to dental hygiene careers,” Gill said in an email reflecting on his visit. “This program is meeting the Governor’s vision for Oregon’s students and will serve to make Oregon stronger in the future.”
Read MoreAfter the creators of the STEM&M initiative at Mazama High School gave a presentation at a national conference in Washington, D.C., several audience members said they liked the uniqueness of the program, and one college said they wanted to bring it to their community.
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