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Planting Seeds for the Future With Walmart Grant Funded Grow Towers

By |2023-11-17T12:00:11-05:00November 10th, 2023|Academics, Calais Happenings, Class Projects, Inspiration, STEAM|

We are thrilled to receive a grant from The Walmart Foundation through the Walmart and Sam’s Club Local Giving Team. The grant funding was used to purchase two Nutraponic Hydroponic Towers to help engage students in Horticulture, sustainability, and experiential [...]

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Robotics and Technology Electives at Calais combine 21st Century Technology, Real-Life Applications, and Lots of Competitive Fun!

By |2022-05-18T11:40:50-04:00May 19th, 2022|Academics, Class Projects, High School, STEAM|

At Calais, we believe that an interactive learning environment is the best way to keep our students engaged. Two electives offered at Calais that are fully hands-on and growing in popularity are Robotics and Technology and here’s why… No textbooks [...]

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Calais STEM Students Use Physics and Engineering to Build Ball Runs

By |2022-03-30T16:35:49-04:00March 30th, 2022|Academics, Class Projects, Lower School, STEAM|

Students in Ms. Binal Shah’s STEM classes applied recent lessons in physics and engineering to design ball run challenges in class.  In the project, the students used only paper and tape to create a ball run for a ping pong ball. “Their [...]

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Calais STEM Students Learn Fun New Concepts Creating Projects

By |2022-03-03T12:51:49-05:00March 3rd, 2022|Academics, High School, Lower School, STEAM|

STEM students in Ms. Binal Shah’s classes combined fun and science in several activities over the past few weeks and learned about everything from problem solving to the different properties of water. In one experiment, Upper School STEM students created flowers out of [...]

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STEM Lesson Teaches Students About Wind Power

By |2021-12-10T11:48:58-05:00December 10th, 2021|Academics, Career & Technical Education, STEAM|

Calais students are learning all about wind power and building wind-powered cars in STEM class with teacher Binal Shah. The lesson focused on the concepts of mass, force and friction. Mrs. Shah taught the students how to harness the power [...]

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