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Fifth graders all STEAMed up for Springhouse expo

By LOU WHEELAND

Special to The Press

Springhouse Middle School held a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) expo May 13 in the school’s gymnasium.

The expo was designed to introduce fifth grade elementary students from the district to the sciences and related subjects available to middle school students.

PRESS PHOTOS BY LOU WHEELAND Using a model of a human skeleton, X-rays and anatomic drawings, Springhouse Middle School eighth grade students Chloe Grady, Niva Sullivan and Cecelia Kravitz show what the skeletal structure of humans look like. Ironton Elementary School fifth graders Joy Farah and Alina Warmkessel were interested during the STEAM expo.
Springhouse Middle School seventh graders Dhruvika Aryasomayajula and Mariam Sheikh introduced fifth graders Horatio Orduna, Zachary Volehko, Even Irving, Evalyn Perrotta and Juliet Heinebecker to basic chemistry by making slime during the STEAM expo.
Sixth graders Aaditri Suresh and Veda Gandhi partnered to present “Girls Who Code” at the Springhouse Middle School STEAM expo.
Springhouse Middle School eight graders Caleb Kutteroff, Niarie Hill and Tacheem Abdallah demonstrate a touch phonograph at the school's STEAM expo May 13. By holding a thin stick between one's teeth and spinning a vinyl record touch in the stick, music can be heard as the sound vibrations travel through the bony structures of the face into the ear.
Tacheem Abdallah spins the vinyl record as Springhouse Middle School Principal Jude Sandt listens as the sound waves move through the stick, into his teeth then up to his ear by way of the bony structures in his face.