Heathcote Kids Work Up Steam

Heathcote kids were treated to a day of scientific exploration at STEAM fair HExpo on Saturday May 21. Students are their families engaged in a wide range of activities to gain exposure to design thinking, building, engineering, robotics, programming, astronomy and even "Beach Physics." Kids were even able to explore the universe in a temporary planetarium that was set up on the stage of the auditorium.

Teachers Christine Boyer and Kathy Leary invited a wide range of local organizations to run workshops for the students. The Westchester Children's Museum ran a structures workshop with Keva Planks, Curious on Hudson led beach experiments on buoyancy, adhesion and cohesion. In the computer room, kids were programming using the language Scratch and we found some very enthusiastic parents and kids building large structures out of cardboard rollers and plastic.

The Heathcote Green Club, led by Lindsay Hicks, asked everyone to sign a pledge to swear off the use of plastic bags. They showed people who to make reusable bags out of t-shirts and also distributed recyclable bags with the pledge. Mayor Jon Mark, who is an alumni of the school stopped by to sign the pledge.

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