Collaboration is an important life skill! Macon Middle School teachers Mr. Wilkinson (STEM) and Mr. Greenwood (CTE Carpentry) will be working together to teach students about the ...
Macon Middle School STEM students are off to a great start this semester! They are practicing "Portrait of a Graduate" (Portrait of a Graduate Website) skills such as collaboratio...
Paid Summer Research Programs! NSF, NASA, NIH, etc. -- 700+ programs: Most programs offer both a stipend and housing and travel support. Programs range across all STEM disciplines ...
This week, ARC opened applications for two summer study opportunities for Appalachian students: the Appalachian Entrepreneurship Academy (AEA) and the Appalachian STEM Academy at O...
Over 1,000 Macon County students participated in the Hour of Code this year. This program allows students to experience coding through game-based programming. Code.org is a free ...
Summer 2023 Applications Open Now! https://www.ncssm.edu/ We are pleased to invite you to apply for Summer 2023 Early Accelerator (5th-6th), Accelerator (7th-9th), and Accelerator ...
Mr. Wilkinson's S.T.E.M. students are putting their final engineering design touches to their "Mousetrap Car" projects. The challenge is to convert as much potential energy into ki...
Macon County teachers are gearing up for a semester-long book study which encourages teachers to evaluate and reflect on their grading practices and why we grade. For more informa...
Macon County Schools is the first far west county to be accepted into the Building Engineers Cohort. The team will kick off this program with a mission/vision brainstorming sessio...
Macon County high school science students were visited by the University of North Carolina Institute for the Environment (IE) students who presented their research projects and sha...
2023 DRAFT 1 Proposed K-12 Science Standards All Stakeholder Survey now open.The State of North Carolina is seeking community input on the proposed science standards. To complete ...
Please congratulate Caiden Ryan and Paxton Sutton from Mr. Wilkinson's MMS STEM class - Winners of the 2022 Bridge Building Competition for seventh grade. They used the Engineering...
Mr. Wilkinson has been teaching physical science through ziplines! Students have been participating in classroom experiments and then had the opportunity to collect data while zip...
Thank you to the Go Outdoors Grant Program and the Highlands Biological Station for providing programming for our students this school year. Mr. Patrick will be able to provide 60...
Save the date to learn more about how to utilize the Discovery Education resources in your classroom. This is open to all K-12 Macon County teachers. Please contact Jennifer Love...
The Macon Bots Robotics Team is ready to build! The team is made up of 20 students from 6th - 12th grade. This semester they will be focusing on programming a robot using Arduino...
Macon County teachers will be putting microscopes into the hands of their elementary students this year! This Fall, ten teachers participated in a "Foldscope" professional develop...
Mr. Wilkinson's STEM students are preparing for their "Physics of the Zipline" field trip at the end of October. Students are learning how the mass of an object affects how far an...
The Macon County School Board had a chance to experience the moon using the new Class VR glasses at Highlands School. Mrs. Covey's students shared with the board how their class h...
On September 8, 2022 students from Mr. Wilkinson and Mrs. Geren's classes participated in the STEM Career Fair hosted by Southwestern Community College. Thank you to the STEM-E gr...