Arlington School & Family Magazine June/July 2015 | Page 8
District Programs
STEM Week in
the AISD
The AISD along with the Arlington STEM Council, a
group of local community stakeholders that has formed
to promote STEM - science, technology, engineering and
math - education within the AISD, kicked off Celebrate
STEM Week. Arlington Mayor Dr. Robert Cluck read a
proclamation naming April 27 through May 1 as Celebrate
STEM Week in Arlington.
Many events took place at select schools, including: television
media and radio media in STEM, STEM career speaker
day, family science night, VIVA Technology student day,
presentations by AISD engineering intern students at Lockheed
Martin, careers on wheels day, STEM hallway decoration
contest, science vocabulary dress-up day, and more. The week
concluded with a grant presentation ceremony by the GM
Foundation and also General Motors Student STEM Day for
select students from Lamar High School, Martin High School
and Sam Houston High School. †
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