STEAM Team Back to School

The first STEAM Team meeting for current/returning STEAM Team members is Thursday, August 7th! The team will be meeting in a new STEAM Room. Meet in room 137. The team will be busy from day 1. They will be settling into their new STEAM room as they also elect new officers and discuss the Team logo and competition shirt design for this year. They'll be helping Mrs. Snider plan events for the open house Saturdays and then facilitate activities for the open house participants.

The team had a great experience in Nashville participating in TSA Nationals. Besides making the final preparations for their events, supporting each other and competing, they had the opportunity to participate in leadership seminars, vote for the new national officers, network with other TSA competitors (and exchange pins), and learn about new events for next year. The team came home with 2 trophies and 1 of our 8th grade students, Abram Casos came home with 2 national awards. That was a first!

STEAM Open Houses will be held on August 16, 23 and 30 in the STEAM Room. The returning STEAM team will showcase STEAM activities for HCMS students interested in joining the STEAM Team. Open House is open to all grade levels at HCMS. After the open houses, new students will be asked to complete an application process. Mrs. Snider will review the applications and send invitations to potential new STEAM Team members. New STEAM Team members will join the team after Labor Day.

New parent meeting will be held August 26 at 5:30 in the AV Room.

The STEAM Team Booster Board is already working together to help the team get off to a good start. The Booster Board's mission is to actively support and enrich the STEAM students experience through advocacy, volunteerism and fundraising efforts. We work collaboratively with all parents, the faculty advisor, school leaders and students in fostering an inclusive and inspiring environment.

Here is the Booster Board for this year.

• Co-Presidents - Jennie Maestri and Beth Wright
• Secretary - Alexis Kelly
• Treasurer - Donna Wandel
• Fundraising - Shanell Weisinger
• Concessions - Angie Davis
• Technical Mentor - Veronica Rodriguez
• Grants and Future City Mentor - Marianne McAllister

We are looking for two more important additions to the board:

• Publicity/Social Media person to increase our use of social media to inform, celebrate and generate a broader outreach.
  
• Webmaster to continue to develop and update the new webpage.

Are you interested in one of these or something else that would help the STEAM Team? Please contact Jennie Maestri, Beth Wright, or Mrs. Snider. We'd love to talk to you about it.

Newsletter - The newsletter will go out weekly. It will have the coming events, details for upcoming events and fundraising and celebrations for successes. Last year we sent it out via email using email addresses you provided at the beginning of the year. We will continue to send it via email for now. We are working toward having it go out on Remind once the new Remind links are sent out.

Website - https://member.hamptoncovesteam.com

We launched our website last year. You will find the calendar for all events as well as helpful information regarding events and fundraising. (if you have skills in updating and maintaining a website we should could use your help. Please contact Mrs. Snider, Jennie Maestri or Beth Wright)

Remind - Remind is the primary method of communication between Mrs. Snider, the boosters and the parents. There will be a new link for Remind for this year. Mrs. Snider will send it out as the new year begins. There will be a general thread and separate threads for each working team within the full team. Stand by for the links. Be sure you are signed into link to make sure you are receiving up to date information.

Are you a member of the HCMS Steam Team group on Facebook? This page is

where we celebrate team accomplishments, share the newsletter and share community opportunities.

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1DF8dubLKw/