The East Pottawattamie County Extension and Outreach and 4-H program offered “STEM Kids” after school program on Tuesdays in January from 3:30- to 5-p.m., at the United Church of Avoca. The program was for all 4th grade youth.  Extension officials report “Excited youth spent Tuesday afternoons leaning about science, technology, engineering and math through hands on activities, teamwork and experiments. Throughout the month of January, youth learned about the engineering design process by making their own “machines” to move and sort candy; force and energy through making their own rollercoasters with loops and hills out of pool noodles; did experiments with popcorn, and learned why bubbles are round along with different bubble experiments.”

Kaden Jorgensen, Tyler Bramblett, Collin Harder, Austin Bramblett, Anna Showers-Pape

Kaden Jorgensen & Collin Harder working together to create a rollercoaster.

The STEM Kids program is being offered to 4th graders attending the Riverside Schools on Wednesday early releases during the month of February.