STEAM Night brings innovation to the kiddos
Students work at making aluminum foil boats. Photos source: Elizabeth Costa
Fire! Students help put out fake blazes with Wareham Fire Department.
Candy-themed STEAM activities sweeten up the event.
Students work at making aluminum foil boats. Photos source: Elizabeth Costa
Fire! Students help put out fake blazes with Wareham Fire Department.
Candy-themed STEAM activities sweeten up the event.
Families packed Wareham Elementary School for an evening of hands-on learning during the school’s fifth annual STEAM Night and Art Show.
The event, open to all students, highlighted STEAM, or, science, technology, engineering, art and math through interactive exhibits and community partnerships. STEAM teacher Elizabeth Costa said the event is always fun to host for the kids.
“So this is our fifth annual STEAM night and art show,” said Costa. “We host it so families can experience all the different kind of fields and careers within STEAM.”
Upstairs, students rotated through activities in the school’s innovation hub, including robotics demonstrations, green screen photography and a design challenge where participants built aluminum foil boats to see how many pennies they could hold before sinking. Other stations featured electrical circuit building and butterfly exploration.
Downstairs and outside, local organizations brought real-world applications of STEAM to life. The Wareham Fire Department showcased its trucks, while the Wareham Police Department displayed SWAT vehicles and gear.
Other groups included veterinarians, environmental educators and maritime experts. In the gym, students explored a life-size inflatable whale, walking inside to learn about anatomy and conservation.
“There’s a jam-packed event, and all of those things connect back to STEAM,” Costa said. “We really want kids and their families to see how many opportunities there are.”
Costa said the event also emphasizes problem-solving and independent thinking, pointing to challenges like the foil boat and egg drop activities. Her favorite event always involve animals, and she said her students do some of the experiments featured at the event in her classroom.
Each student also contributed artwork to the show, rounding out a night designed to inspire curiosity and creativity.
“It’s a lot of fun to watch them get a challenge, kind of work through it, and solve the problems on their own,” she said.
