If you’ve ever studied acting or improvisation, you are probably familiar with the “Yes, and…” exercise. In this activity, participants are asked to have a free-flowing conversation with the only requirement being that every response begin with the words “Yes,…
Technology in Education: A Future Classroom
When I first started this film project with the intention of submitting it to the White House Student Film Festival, I wasn’t completely sure how to go about it. In order to fit the film festival’s criteria I had the…
Project LEO: Love Each Other
Video by Daniel Nemroff ’15 Every year, for as long as STEAM has been running, which so far is only two years, some students in STEAM try to give a holiday gift to the school. BC, my computer science and…
CryENGINE and the Oculus Rift
Our Goal Our goal is to create a realistic and immersive environment that people can explore using a virtual reality machine. To accomplish this we are using the CryENGINE and the Oculus Rift (virtual reality machine) to create and explore…
Painting Poetry with Robots
The people? Jenna Bergmann (myself), Shira Prusky, and Hannah Szapary. The concept? Painting poetry with robots. I know what you’re thinking — painting poetry either is nonsensical or pretty lame. I don’t mean painting words, though. I mean painting moods.…
STEAM: What we’re working on now
So far we have shared stories of the first year of STEAM. Now that we are a couple of months into our second year of STEAM, it seems the time is right for a more current update. This year we…
A Disjointed Account of Why STEAM is Awesome
Its fall of 2012. I am a senior in high school, so I am not expecting to do anything too radical in the school year. “Keep your head down, do your work, get into college” that’s the plan, and darn…
STEAM: Year One, Part One
“Hi, welcome to STEAM. I’m Josh Weisgrau and I think that every problem in the world can be solved by great design. Mr. Buck, over here to my right, thinks that every problem in the world can be solved by…
How did we get here?
STEAM at FCS is on a roll. Last year culminated in a national prize and a trip to Disney World — and somehow things have only gotten better since then. With all of this forward momentum, the STEAM team is…