Middle School Students Win Automation & Robotics Award

Mass STEM Hub organized a Design Showcase, held on April 26 at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM).  Over 100 middle school students attended, presenting their projects from their Automation and Robotics courses, an engineering and design curriculum offered to schools in partnership with Project Lead the Way (PLTW).  Seventh graders Brianna, Semilore, and Tenya earned the Overall Showcase Winner award.

When Good Enough is No Longer Good Enough

When Good Enough is No Longer Good Enough

Disappointment filled my mother’s face.  Deeper and stronger than any I had ever seen before.  Normally, when she looked at me, my mom’s eyes lit up with pride.  But not today. As we sat in our third-quarter parent teacher conference, my sophomore history teacher, Mr. Springer, detailed for my mother the truth – I had failed the previous two quarters of his class.  For the first time in my life, all I could see was extreme disappointment and sadness as my mother looked at me. In that moment, my heart broke. I knew I had let down my biggest champion. I knew it was time to change.  I could be and needed to be better.