Archives School Year 2018-19

 
STEMinar 2018

This year marks the beginning of a new format for the Davie High
STEM Center’s signature event, STEMinar. Instead of hosting
students and guests on an early release day where students chose
three breakout sessions to attend, it has ​evolved into a week-long
series of opportunities where our campus is saturated with industry
professionals for forty minute sessions during SMART Lunch blocks.
The STEM Center also opened its sessions to interested CTE
students. During the week of October 22nd, twenty nine sessions
occurred that included interaction between students and the following
seventeen professionals:

● Travis Myers, Executive Chef, Willow’s Bistro

● David Sybert, K-12 Education Specialist, Coastal Studies Institute
● Chad Helton, Executive Clinical Oncology Specialist with AstraZeneca & Regional Training Sales
Specialist
● Eric Farr, J.D., Magistrate- Davie County, Judicial District 22-B
● Corbin Kopetzky, Lenoir-Rhyne Teaching Scholar, Davie STEM Alum
● Beth Morton, Environmental Engineer, Morton Environmental
Consulting
● Crystal Williams, Senior Financial Services Officer, State
Employees Credit Union
● Seth James, CTE Department, Automotive, STEAM rat-rod
● Elizabeth Rosenbaum, Pharmacist and Group Fitness Instructor
● Ashley Kern and Sarah Lewis, DDAC Apprenticeship Program
● Jack Dodd, Computer Engineer
● DaVonté McKenith, WXII, TriadCW Anchor/Reporter
● Joe Weil, Broadcast Media Relations Manager, Winston-Salem Dash
● Jason Murphy, Oak Valley Golf Course Superintendent
● Freddie Robinson, Five & Two Farms
● ChaMarra Saner, Chemistry Professor, Catawba University
● Camilla Helton, Physicians Assistant, Novant Health Cardiology

 
 Lunch & Learns

October 5, 2018​--The Thirst Project

● Kyle Woyak, University of
Wisconsin @ Stevens Point,
Health Promotion and Wellness
Health and Fitness Advocate
● Erin Shattuck, Kent State
University, Biology & Psychology

Thirst project is a nonprofit organization

that is actively pursuing studying,
understanding, and raising public
awareness of the global water crisis.
This interactive presentation will cover
the global water crisis and how we can
END it. Topics will include the scope of
the global water crisis, water and its impact, impact assessments of the global water crisis, Thirst’s solution of the
global water crisis, and how youth activation can help achieve their mission!

November 28, 2018​--Dr. Rosenbaum attended college at the University of Michigan then medical school
at Wake Forest, followed by three years of residency training at Oregon Health Sciences University in his primary
specialty of family medicine then one more year of specialized training in sports medicine at Wake Forest. His first
job was in the mountains of NC where he was in private practice as a family doctor and team physician for
Western Carolina University. He returned to Wake Forest in 2005 to become a faculty member in family medicine.
For 10 years he was the head primary care team physician for Wake Forest athletics and he also travelled
internationally as a US Soccer team doctor for 13 years. The last 4.5 years he has been the family medicine
residency director overseeing the training of future family doctors and teaching medical students.

December 19, 2018​--Kasey Potts, NC State University Student Double Major-Psychology and Biology, Davie
STEM Alum
"I am a third year student at NC State University, double majoring in Psychology and Biology with a concentration
in Integrative Physiology and Neurobiology. I am also a research intern at the National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences studying sex differences in hippocampal function and in the past I performed research in a
laboratory on campus, in the Sombers Lab, studying the electrochemical signal of opioids. I will be speaking about
what is research, why you should be involved in research, and how to get involved in research."

February 21, 2019​--Darren Crotts and Lisa Foster,

Family Promise of Davie County
Family Promise of Davie County is part of a national
response to family homelessness. Family Promise
provides temporary shelter, support services, and
transportation for families with children experiencing
homelessness. We partner with local congregations who
use their facilities and volunteers to provide overnight
shelter and food. Families in our program work
one-on-one with a case manager and have access to
laundry, showers, and Wi-Fi at our day center. All our services are provided at no cost to the families, 365 days a
year.
March 15, 2019​--​Elizabeth Rosenbaum, Pharmacist, Foster Drug -- Mocksville, NC
Elizabeth Rosenbaum received her BS in Pharmacy and
Doctorate in Pharmacy from UNC Chapel
Hill. She is currently employed as a pharmacist at Foster Drug in
Mocksville. Her past jobs include
emergency department pharmacist at WFU Baptist Medical Center
and staff pharmacist at C.J. Harris
Memorial Hospital in Sylva, N.C. and at Davie County Hospital.
Elizabeth is the proud parent of three
children who attend Davie County Schools.

March 19, 2018--​Bridget Settlemyer, Career Coach, Career Development Services, DCCC at Davie County High
School
From Ms. Settlemyer-
“I graduated from National University in Costa Mesa, CA with a Bachelors in Media and
Multimedia Art I've had three "careers"-Human Services, Human Resources, and
teaching Adult Education/ Human Resource Development I'll be talking to the students
about how sometimes we don't realize immediately what our career pathway is,different
ways to discover what your pathway might be, and how two different careers brought me
to where I am now.”

STEM Teachers Attend Professional Development

Seventeen STEM teachers opted in to a day-long PD with
Elaine Atherton that centered around collaboration and
inquiry on June 14, 2019. During this session, STEM
teachers were challenged in cross-curricular groups to
create inquiry tasks for students. Then teachers met by
content areas to brainstorm even more ideas.

All STEM teachers at

Davie High had several
required professional
development opportunities
this year. STEM teachers
met up with CTE teachers for Project/Problem-Based Learning PD with Dayna
Lauer on both August 16, 2018 (all day) and February 13, 2019 (3 hours). Ms.
Lauer is a founder of
Project ARC where
she works world-wide
to empower teachers
to facilitate authentic
learning experiences
for students.

STEM teachers were also included in the following

campus-wide required PD sessions with Elaine Atherton: ​Exploring and Aligning
Skills​ on August 20, 2018 (4 hours), ​The Four C’s--Creativity, Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication​ on
September 20, 2018 (1 hour), ​Productive Struggle & Growth Mindset​ on April 18, 2019 (1 hour). Ms. Atherton was
previously attached to NC New Schools where she served as an instructional coach serving Davie County during
the early years of Davie High STEM Center. Since then she has joined forces with other education leaders to
form the company Constructive Learning Design where she is
now the Director of New Teacher Development.

 
 
 
 
 
 
Curriculum Night 
Davie County High School hosted its annual Curriculum Night on
February 21, 2019, to allow students and parents the chance to see
what the school academically has to offer before registration begins
for the 2019-2020 school year. As usual, the Davie STEM Center
held two sessions for rising 9th graders and parents in the
auditorium where current STEM students spoke to the packed
crowds about what STEM is at Davie High from students’ points of
view. In addition, for the second year, the STEM Center hosted a
Gallery Walk of STEM student work with a chance to ask questions from STEM students and teachers in order for
families to make the best decision about whether or not their students are best suited for the STEM Center before
the registration deadline.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
STEM Alliance Meetings & Classroom Visits 
 
The biannual STEM Alliance/ CTE Advisory
Meetings occurred on both November 1st
and April 17th this school year. This is a
committee of community members made up
of business and educational professionals as
well as parents and sometimes students.
STEM teachers shared about summer enrichment trips and STEMinar/
Lunch & Learn information in the fall meeting. During the spring meeting,
attendees were invited to spend time in classrooms in walk-throughs to see
collaborative group work and protocols firsthand.

In addition, there was a panel discussion of the new DDAC Apprenticeship

Program, so that community members could gain a greater understanding
of the work that is being done and how they can help in the future. These
students shared their gratitude for this opportunity for college credit while
holding a job with the promise for growth right out of high school.
 
 
 
 
Senior Reception--April 11, 2019 
 
Each spring the Davie High STEM Center honors our seniors with a reception where
we invite all STEM seniors and their parents. This year’s event was a fun and festive
afternoon filled with a Pin-the-bowtie-on-Rubin game, bean bag toss, cake, snacks,
and fellowship. In addition, we had a recognition of our STEM Distinction graduates
who were honored with a
certificate and green cords
to wear with their
graduation robes.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Davie High Hosts PTEC 
On April 9th the Piedmont Triad Education
Consortium held its spring meeting of
administrators, curriculum directors, and
other educators at Davie County High
School.

During breakout sessions, they were able to

attend one of three concurrent sessions held
in the Davie High Innovation Lab for a
shared presentation of what STEM is at Davie High and the school’s access
to varied technology--both devices and tools. STEM Leads Amber Brandon
and Tani Caudle led the STEM presentation about the history of the
Center and how it fits within a larger campus. The technology department
of Hugh Lee and Anne Davis shared the specs of the process for choosing
tech for the new Davie High campus and what choices teachers currently
have for technology use both in and out of the classroom. Then
presenters walked attendees through the steps of a Google Expedition
with the VR glasses. This was an opportunity to showcase the
development of both STEM and technology at Davie High. 
 
 
 
The Reality of Money Fair 
 
The Davie High STEM Center hosted a Reality of Money Fair in
conjunction with our local State Employees Credit Union during two
packed sessions on May 21st.

In this simulation, students were transformed into young adults with

jobs, debt, families, and other real-world responsibilities. They made
financial decisions based on the scenarios randomly given to them to
help make it to their next payday. This was done with the following
objectives in mind: importance of good credit, advantage of
post-secondary education, and the value of good financial judgement.

Students could sign up ahead of time with teacher permission, or a

STEM or CTE teacher could sign up his/her whole class. Nearly one
hundred students were involved in this simulation along with close to 30
community volunteers.

 
 
The STEM Center Asks CTE Teachers to Opt In 
The Davie High STEM Center has been made up of teachers from four content areas since its inception: science,
math, English, and social studies. STEM teachers have had the benefits of STEM training, cross-curricular
networking, and the sharing of best practices that focus on STEM processes and protocols. This spring CTE
teachers were invited to opt in to being in the STEM Center. For interested CTE teachers, it was important for
them to know what they might expect as a STEM Center teacher. Their class schedule will not change, and they
will continue to have hybrid STEM /non-STEM students like our AP teachers (most of which are STEM) have.
They may or may not have a STEM homeroom, depending on numbers of incoming cohorts. As new STEM
teachers, they will also need to expect a half day orientation prior to next year’s start of school. CTE teachers
were also informed about the responsibilities and advantages of being a STEM teacher at Davie High. All STEM
teachers participate in STEM-offered PD; participate in a STEM planning period PLC that is cross-curricular and is
a place to learn together, give critical feedback, and share best classroom practices; serve on a STEM Center
committee that addresses the needs of the STEM Center and helps serve students while maintaining
state-mandated criteria; attend one Program Meeting a month before school where committees report out and
STEM Center needs are discussed; and be invited to be involved in any STEM enrichment trips and events. By
the summer, thirteen CTE teachers opted in to being a new part of Davie High STEM.
  
Ingersoll Rand Faculty Site Visit 
Twenty six STEM faculty members visited Ingersoll Rand on June 13 during the end-of-school teacher workdays.
IR is an industrial manufacturing company and welcomed STEM teachers to their Mocksville plant where teachers
wore safety equipment, were escorted into a planning and designing room to see how leaders manage their
teams by looking at all types of data, and were given a tour of the plant floor where teachers saw firsthand how
the machines worked and how parts were manufactured step by step.

After the tour STEM teachers were asked to reflect by filling out a questionnaire about take-aways. Here are
some of their comments:
● Blaine Nicholson (Math)​--> “​I was really impressed by the attention to efficiency. They are not satisfied
with where they are at, they are always trying to improve their model.”
● Angie Stage (Science)​--> “It does not necessarily take a high level college degree to work as a machinist,
Spatial geometry is very important and they like problem solving within the ranks.”
● Matt Barker (English)​--> “Emphasizing the continuing importance of soft skills in the real world should be
an essential component of classroom instruction. Part of that is the need to go above and beyond in any
type of job and always keep a focus on exceeding the expectations of those you work with.”
● Megan Baker (Social Studies)​--> “Information on their tardy and attendance policy was interesting.
Overall, the experience was fantastic!”
● Seth James (CTE)​--> “It takes all kinds to make a business of that proportion operate efficiently. Showing
our future workforce that every job/career has value is important.”
● Kathy Edminson (English)​--> “Data posted in common areas let all stakeholders know where they
are/where they want to be. Advancement depends on going beyond the expectations.”
● Melanie Stancill (Science)​--> “Safety first! They record and analyze data daily. Employees use the design
process regularly. IR encourages employee growth.”
● Will Marrs (CTE)​--> “The processes we saw yesterday in their manufacturing and even their assembly
facility are the meat of my drafting II curriculum. I will be making a field trip to allow students to see
concepts like these in person.”