Greenville selected for statewide STEM award

Greenville Area School District in Mercer County was recently honored with a Middle School Program of Excellence Award for the 2019-20 school year from the Technology and Engineering Education Association of PA (TEEAP) and the International Technology and Engineering Education Association (ITEEA) for excellence in STEM education. Only one school is selected to represent Pennsylvania each year. The state-level award was presented at the annual STEMathon conference in Lancaster, PA, on October 30, 2019. As an award winner, Greenville will represent Pennsylvania at the ITEEA conference in Baltimore in March.

To be eligible for the award, the district’s STEM program needed to have undergone a curricular or facility revision within the past five years. The application process included documentation of a “big picture” description of what the program is designed to do for students, describing the kinds of activities completed with students and how it extends or is integrated with the overall curriculum in the school. Along with this documentation the district included letters of support from administration, parents and students as well as pictures of students engaged in classroom activities, examples of instructional materials used with the students and examples of student work.

The winning application not only featured the seventh- and eighth-grade Technology and Engineering curriculum but provided ties to recent grant initiatives, Trojan Academy, efforts of the Gifted program to promote STEM education, and the ability for advanced English language arts students in grades 7-8 to take high school level electives.