The first week of January saw Meeker 4-H Program Coordinator Carley Smith visit Kay Bivens’ library class demonstrating STEM (Science. Technology, Engineering and Math) activities to first through fifth graders. The theme for this week’s presentation was engineering, focusing on building model ski jumps.
The kids collaborated in small groups and were each given a set of materials to build a ski jump, launching a marble into a targeted area. The students could use blocks,…