S.T.E.M.

This project has been many years in the making. It has been a tremendous partnership between Macon County Schools STEM Program, Macon County Soil and Water Conservation District,...

The North Carolina School for Science and Math is excited to share that the Summer Accelerator residential program, sponsored by the Dogwood Health Trust, is open for applications...

Franklin, NC will experience a partial solar eclipse on Monday, April 8th, 2024. This link explains what you might see (it is based out of Atlanta but is similar to what we will ...

Check out this video of the Macon Bots in action! Macon Bots 2023 Robotics Challenge The year is 2026. You have been working on the Moon as part of the Artemis II crew on the M...

Last night at the Macon County Board of Education meeting, Miss Hailey Brown, a student at Macon Early College, was recognized for being selected for the NC Flight Crew. She has ...

Last night at our Macon County Board Meeting, Mrs. Patti Elkin was recognized for the 2023 Outstanding Secondary Mathematics teacher award. Ms. Elkin is a teacher at Macon Middle...

In early November, Mr. Wilkinson was recognized as the 2023 District 8 Outstanding Middle School Science Teacher by the North Carolina Science Teachers Association. Mr. Wilkinson...

Thank you to Laurel Magazine for highlighting our Migration Celebration program and the grant support we received through the Highlands Biological Foundation. Check out pages 70-...

Thank you to Great Smoky Mountains National Park and its resource educators for providing our teachers with training and materials to teach these engaging interdisciplinary lesson...

The Macon Outdoor Club is getting ready for their fly fishing field trip this coming weekend by tying their own flies! Thank you to Fish Tales Outfitting and Guide Service here ...

Students in Mr. Wilkinson's STEM classes have some exciting news about their recent activities in their drone technology program. Students have been doing a wonderful job flying d...

Annular Solar Eclipse Grab your eclipse glasses, ensure they are not damaged, and head outside to witness an annular solar eclipse! To celebrate, the Smoky Mountains STEM Colla...

Thank you to the Macon Gem and Mineral Society of Franklin, NC for supporting our teachers! Ms. Carlson (MVI) and Mr. Byrne (MEC) both received generous scholarships to purchase m...

STEM Opportunity for 6th - 12th grade students! About the Program: The NC Flight Crew program is an exciting opportunity for girls and non-binary students in grades 6-12 who want ...

Migration Celebration is in full swing this week! Over 4,000 Macon County 6th-grade students have participated in this program over the last 13 years. Students spent the whole day...

The state has recognized Macon STEM as a "Portrait of a Graduate" exemplar! Our robotics program is just the beginning! Our 5th - 8th grade STEM program at Mountain View Intermedi...

Students from Mr. Shepherd's Appalachian Culture class visited the Foxfire Village to learn more about traditional skills and crafts including blacksmithing, weaving, log cabin bu...

Students in the Nantahala School STEM-E Club with Mrs. McMahan have been learning about flight using a National Inventors Hall of Fame curriculum! Thank you to the Cherokee Preser...

Please congratulate the 2023 7th-grade winners of the Paper Tower Design Challenge, Andrew, Aiden, and Jackson. These "future engineers" did an outstanding job designing, tes...

The STEM students at MMS are learning to write computer code. Our goal is to work in collaboration with our CTE classes on the chicken coup project. The STEM students will be writ...