S.T.E.M.

Students in Mrs. Coker's Science classes learned about DNA today thanks to the Science House Mobile STEM Lab. Thank you to the Cherokee Preservation Foundation, STEM-E Grant thr...

The Macon Bots Robotics Team recently attended the Challenger Center in Chattanooga, TN, and the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL. The students were learning about th...

Students in Annie Hornsby's STEM-E Experimental Design class earned top honors at the Western Region Science Fair at WCU last week. Congratulations to Abigail Elliott got a...

We are pleased to extend an invitation to you for the Mountain View Intermediate School solar panel dedication to be held in the morning on Friday, March 31. The installed educati...

Thank you to The Franklin Press for highlighting this exciting project taking place at Macon Middle School. This has been an amazing partnership between STEM, CTE, and Art. Than...

Check out this fun opportunity! March Mammal Madness Educator Website

Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont Careers in Natural Resources Camp July 17-21, 2023 Rising 8th - 12th grade students Interested in a career in the outdoors? Join us...

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 collaborat...

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 a...

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 Accelerato...

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 k...

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 inform...

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 sessi...

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 ...

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 complet...

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 Engineerin...

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 zi...