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11/22/2011 7:30:00 AMKeyBank donation video coverage

WKYC Ch. 3

By: Kim Wheeler

CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland Schools will be expanding Science, Technology, Education and Math education to six pre-k to 8 schools.

KeyBank Foundation gave the school system $700,000 towards expanding STEM education in more schools.

The foundation also helped the district open MC2 STEM High School back in 2008. That high school is rated excellent now on the state report card. The first graduating class will graduate this year and most are expected to go on to college.

Successful students like David Boone helped convince KeyBank to invest in STEM education. The senior at MC2 Stem High School is graduating with two years worth of college credit and may go to MIT, Stanford or Harvard, to name a few.  << See video

 

Newsnet5.com
By: Brian Archer

CLEVELAND - The KeyBank Foundation donated $700,000 to the Cleveland Metropolitan School District during a STEM school partnership announcement Tuesday morning. The announcement took place in the gym of the Hannah Gibbons-Nottingham PREK-8 School in Cleveland.

The joint venture is viewed by CMSD as a vote of confidence not only in Cleveland schools, but for the students who will take part in this new and innovative curriculum that's designed to increase their chances of attending college and leaving with a diploma.

STEM studies emphasize science, technology, engineering and math.  Students not only learn in the classroom but transfer that knowledge to the workplace with the cooperation of local businesses.  By learning this way, students can better understand how what they learn in school directly translates into the workplace.

STEM senior David Boone is the first from his family to go to college.  Although he graduates this year, he already has the equivalent of 2 years worth of college credit from Cleveland State University.  He spoke to NewsChannel 5 about his STEM experience and how it helped him understand the connection between classroom studies and real world problem solving.

Since the STEM curriculum was introduced, student testing scores steadily increased.  This improvement in test scores has encouraged local businesses, such as Keybank, to provide funding for the expansion of the program.

The STEM program will now be available to students in the six elementary schools designated by the school district. Hannah Gibbons-Nottingham School is one of six designated STEM schools in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. The other five schools include George Washing Carver, Michael R. White, Mound, Mary B. Martin and Orchard. Each of these schools will receive $100,000 from the Keybank Foundation to implement the STEM program.

$100,000 of the grant will be allocated to the FabLab (fabrication laboratory).  FabLab is a mobile unit that will travel from school to school.  The lab allows students to design structures using computer aided design, or CAD, programs. The information is then transferred to machinery that fabricates those designs into items that can be constructed by the students to complete the production process.  Exercises like these show students how manufacturing ideas become real products

The six Cleveland schools using the FabLab will be the first elementary schools in the nation to get this type of hands on experience. << See video