Welcome to the latest news and notes from the STEM Sports® team!

STEM Sports® is a K-8 curriculum company that is committed to the educational enrichment of young students. Our unique supplemental curriculum lessons are carefully constructed to be creative and strategic, immersing students in education, sport, and physical activities that allow students to cultivate and promote their STEM literacy, engagement, and retention.
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Contrary to popular belief, there is such thing as free lunch!

Despite what our high school Chemistry teacher told us sophomore year, we’re offering a free supplemental curriculum lesson called Playing with Precision .

The premise: when you give a child a ball and ask them to throw it, their first reaction is to throw it as far and as hard as they can. But what about precision? In this hands-on lesson, students will learn about energy transfer, accuracy and, of course, precision, as they try to get a “ball” into a bucket or at a target. This lesson is a great example of the types of modules included in our current inventory of supplemental curriculum.

Playing with Precision aligns with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), making it perfect to implement in the classroom or after-school program. While having fun, students will also begin to learn about the Engineering Design Process (EDP) through trial and error. 

The lesson is easily implemented at any grade and skill level. STEM Sports® has created a 3rd to 5th grade lesson plan as well as a 6th to 8th grade lesson. Each of these separate curricula teaches the same core concepts, and they are presented in a way that is going to make students in each of these grade categories successful in learning the stated concept and objectives, precisely!
Click below to access this FREE lesson!Click
 Launch Angles, established in 1968!

 In July of this year, Sporttechie published an article called Way, Back, Back, Back: The Unlikely Origin of Baseball's Launch Angle Revolution . A piece that identifies how technological advancements continue to enhance a hitter’s ability to hit the ball a looooong ways! A concept that hits close to home for us at STEM Sports® . The article is Part 1 of a five-part series, with the first story highlighting Major League Baseball's 2019 Home Run Derby; a focus on not only the number of home runs hit during this year’s event, but the average distance of all eight competitors. To be exact, a record 312 HR's were hit, collectively traveling almost 25 miles!

To read more about this current phenomenon...that was begun in 1968... visit our STEM Blog by clicking HERE and learn how the 'Splendid Splinter' and the game of golf has driven the technology advancements in both games and more.

And, it goes without saying that there is a common thread between baseball and golf in the STEM sphere. Likewise, we at STEM Sports® are excited and proud to announce the development and launch of STEM Golf, STEM Baseball, and STEM Softball curricula by 2020
STEM Sports ® has the great privilege of attending several events each quarter. Here are some of the highlights from this past quarter…
CSO Program & SciTech Institute events...
One of the highlights for us is to engage with students that our unique curriculum is designed for. Recently, these opportunities have come via our relationship with the Chief Science Officers (CSO) program. Born in Arizona, there are now several domestic as well as international CSO programs. CSOs are students in 6th through 12th grades who are elected by their peers to be liaisons for STEM in their schools and in their communities. 
Back in July, in front of select CSO’s, we had the honor of being panelists so that we could share our paths from youths to professionals. We found this opportunity to be very fulfilling...for us!
In September, we were asked to host a panel to discuss the great double play of Sport and STEM. We were thrilled to present fantastic panelists and we had an eager audience to listen to all that was shared from the stage through our theme, Give STEM a Sporting Chance.

Pictured from left: Jeff Golner, Karina Bohn, Mike DuVarney, Misty Hyman, Steven Hunter & Sean Barton

Our session uncovered how sports can be utilized as a catalyst for young students to discover and learn about STEM principles. After all, not all students will go on to careers playing sports for a living; sports does provide a myriad of different occupations and jobs off the playing court or field. 
Big thanks to our panelists!
Beyond Sport...

STEM Sports® attended the annual Beyond Sports House event in New York City last month and we were together with leaders in sport, business, social change, academia and development. The event began with understanding how sports can help in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in advance of the 74 th  Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. We were one puzzle piece of 100 international individuals that came together around ‘10Roundtables’ to "think beyond our individual organizational goals and challenges to generate solutions to advance 10 of the SDGs where sport has the greatest potential for collective impact." We took lots of pride in working with nine others to produce recommendations on improving quality education with the use of STEM. Our suggestions were then presented to the United Nations on September 25th!
Additionally, we had a captive audience of professional sports franchise executives as well as local and international non-profit agency contacts who attentively learned more about our curriculum offerings. We're always excited to attend these events and look forward to what may come...beyond...
We enjoy working with teachers and curriculum administers across the country and we enjoy receiving all of their feedback. Today, we're featuring one teacher who wrote to us about her student's encounter with our supplemental curriculum.

"The students had an amazing time and were still talking about the STEM Basketball program as they exited campus! You are allowing students to experience excitement in learning, and it is so encouraging! Thanks again!"
- Amy Rosengren, 6th Grade Science Teacher

But Amy wasn't done. She also provided some great perspective in a short news segment, produced by Cronkite News. Click below...
STEM Sports® has been focused on providing quality content in our blog with posts twice a week. We encourage you to visit our website or simply follow all of our social media channels using the handle STEMSportsUSA - see the icons at the bottom of this newsletter to pick one or all of our channels.
We're very excited to bring you a very robust post that has outstanding STEM activities for every grade, kindergarten through 12th grade. We mined the STEM universe to find projects and lessons that you can use in your classroom or after-school program. Have fun!
From all of us at STEM Sports ® , thank you for your continued interest and support.
In our next newsletter, we'll be able to share some new international collaborations. Until then, happy learning!
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