The Engineering Summer Program for Teachers (ESP4T) is a weeklong professional development workshop hosted at the University of Wyoming campus focusing on the use of Physical Computing as a teaching tool to engage K-12 students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

This year’s ESP4T offered the opportunity to all teacher participants, to bring high achieving 6th to 12th grade students to participate in the workshop. The four students chosen were top performing students in the clubs, Science Olympiad, and MESA. They have participated in the club since 9th grade and during the last three years have competed and placed in regional and state competitions. These students are also members of DHS Robotics team and have competed for BEST and FIRST Robotics competition. Lastly, these students have background in engineering, coding, and programming that they can share and contribute beneficial not only to us, but also to other participants in the workshop.

One of our goal in joining the program is, at the end of the program, student participants, will share and demonstrate what they learned and experienced to teach other members of the club. In addition, the student will showcase a project or module for the student body of Deming High School, Red Mountain Middle School, and Deming Intermediate School. The showcase will help promote and encourage students to explore post-secondary courses after high school.

The ESP4T was held July 18, 2022 through July 22. 2022. During the first 2 days, participants learned the basic about circuits and started building projects using Arduino Microcontroller. Some of the projects in the session were blinking LED lights, building Ohm meter, and a Voltmeter. Students and teachers were excited to end the day by building a cylon circuit (Battlestar Galactica) using 4-8 LEDs, resistors, jumpers/cables, and Arduino microcontroller.

The following day, participants attended different modules/sessions of their choice where they build laser cat toy, theremin project, adaptive cruise control for car, automatic watering system, color car, Arduino music, digital dice, tetherball, sun tracker, coin game, derby timer, and language learning. All modules were created by the students of the University of Wyoming College of Engineering.

In between, college students demonstrated their engineering skills while presenting their group projects. One group presented how to fly multiple drones simultaneously, using Raspberry Pi microcontroller programmed with Thony Phyton. Another group showcased what they called a “Pi Car”, which again was programmed using Thony Phyton programming, with multiple sensors to operate as a remote controlled, or an independent car utilizing the cruise control. The last group presented a virtual reality device that enable the user to manipulate and explore, the different parts of the human body. The presentations excited both the teachers and students and they look forward to exploring and making projects using another microcontroller, the RaspberryPi.

The RaspberryPi is a more complicated microcontroller than the Arduino microcontroller. The RaspberryPi works like a personal computer and can be directly connected to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse. This device also connects to school or home networks and laptops through the ethernet port. Lastly, the improved version of the RaspberryPi can connect to Wi-Fi networks.

The RaspberryPi activity started with a module for traffic light code where participants gained a better understanding of how traffic lights work in the street and how the cross-push button works in relation to the traffic lights activity and function. The interesting part of the RaspberryPi session is when participants learned how to fly drones using DroneBlocks and gather weather information of a certain area. In addition, the participants learned how to control a PiCar (RaspberryPiCar) in the three different functions: (1) using the laptop/computer as the remote control, so the PiCar can move forward, backward, left, and right. (2) the PiCar, with the use of sensors, can be programmed to follow a certain path using the colors black and white.

As an appreciation for the student’s participation, the head organizer of the workshop gave each student one PiCar to keep, and students or teachers can use them to showcase in our schools. Our students were extremely grateful to participate in the program.

The engineering summer training program made a huge impact to both the teacher and student participants. The engineering summer program organizers would like to grow the number of participants at next year’s event and hope that students would consider exploring the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

Our clubs are hoping to bring more students to next school year’s engineering summer program. If you would like to join Science Olympiad and/ or MESA, please contact Mr. Belen at reynaldo.belen@demingps.org.

The Athletic and Activities Department would like to remind everyone of our event ticket prices and the distribution of athletic passes.

Ticket prices for all athletic events at Red Mountain Middle School will be as follows:

Ticket prices for all athletic events at Deming High School will be as follows:

All tickets must be purchased online at GOFAN.CO and prices reflect the $1.00 service fee.

All Bataan, Bell, Chaparral, Columbus, DIS, Memorial, RST, My Little School and Central Office staff members who would like a season pass to athletic events, will pay a one-time fee of $10.00 for their pass. This pass will get in you to all athletic events at RMMS and DHS, excluding district tournament play-off games.

All DHS and RMMS staff members who would like a season pass to athletic events, will pay a one-time fee of $5.00 for the pass. This pass will get in you to all athletic events at RMMS and DHS, excluding district tournament play-off games.

All Deming High School and Red Mountain student-athletes can purchase a season pass for a one-time fee of $5.00. This pass will get them in to all athletic events at RMMS and DHS, excluding district tournament play-off games.

These passes are a great deal and will allow you to enter all football, volleyball, wrestling, basketball, track, baseball and softball games for the one-time cost of the pass.

The New Mexico Public Education Department collects and analyzes district and school attendance data to calculate chronic absenteeism. A student that is chronically absent is defined as missing school for any reason for ten percent or more of the school year. For Deming Public Schools this means that students who miss more than 17 school days are considered chronically absent.

The Cross Country team has Fun Fridays every week at 7 pm. On 7/15 we had a pizza party, played an ultimate frisbee game, and we ran of course.  Anyone interested in participating in the sport of cross country should contact Timothy Host at timothy.host@demingps.org.

Students from Early College High School were all over the community for their 4th Annual Community Service Days. Students volunteered at The Senior Center, La Casa Healing House, DAG Ship, and working donation tables at Peppers and Walmart. Community Service Day at ECHS allowed our students to make a positive impact in our community. Thank you community members for letting our students learn about service at your sites!