Shoreline STEM Festival - student projects and hands-on activities: report from 2019 and plans for 2020

Mud table - altering stream flow
Photo by Autumn Warriner 

The 2019 Shoreline STEM Festival was a family friendly fun-filled event that was held at Shoreline Community College on Saturday, June 1st where the communities of Shoreline and surrounding areas came to participate in various STEM activities and demonstrations.

Student projects were on display surrounded by hands-on activities like building DNA Marshmallows with the Young Women in Bio group, 3-D Pen creations with the Shoreline Library, to kids testing PH levels and playing in muddy sand to see how they can alter stream flow.

Lego Ninjas
Photo by by Autumn Warriner

In the middle of the exhibitors and student projects in the PUB building, you could grab a seat in the Trivia room put on by the Shorewood Math Olympiad for some entertaining fun with candy prizes or grab a slice of pizza or bakery treat from the Shorecrest Technology Student Association and then head over to the awesome robotics display in the SCC gym put on by Shoreline Robotics Society, TEAM Pronto from Shoreline High schools as well as Robototes from Sammamish High school.

While the judges were busy tallying the scores from the student science projects, Mad Science put on an awesome fire and ice show for the captivated audience! Photos from this year’s festival can be found here.

SAVE THE DATE!!! We are excitedly planning for the 2020 Shoreline STEM Festival which will take place on Saturday, May 16, 2020 at Shoreline Community College!

We are currently searching for volunteers with an interest in helping bring ARTS into the Shoreline STEM Festival as well as a few other open positions. Our committee meets once per month at the Meridian Park Elementary School Library from 8p-9p. 17077 Meridian Ave N, Shoreline 98133.

Our meeting dates will be 11/19/19, December meeting TBD (if needed), 1/14/20, 2/11/20, 3/7/20, 4/7/20, 4/28/20 (if needed). Our meetings are open to the community or if you would like more info on how to volunteer please email shorelinestemfestival@gmail.com .

Clean water demo
Photo by Autumn Warriner

2019 Shoreline STEM Festival Winners

Computer Science and Engineering Winners

K-2nd grade

• Grady Marshall and Henry Warriner, 2nd graders at Syre

3rd-6th grade

• Max Reed, 5th grade at Syre
• Keira Graeff, 5th grade at Meridian Park

Science Investigation

K-2nd grade

• Conner Atherton, 1st grade at Briarcrest
• Ada Stoddard, Kindergarten at First Lutheran Richmond Beach

3rd-6th grade

• Sanika Datar, 6th grade at Environmental and Adventure School
• Michah Vermillion, 6th grade at Ridgecrest
• Zahni Dembrow, 6th grade at Lake Forest Park
• Nina Vermillion, 4th grade at Ridgecrest

7th-12th grade

• Caroline Wu, 11th grade at Newport HS
• Yamin Dembrow, 8th grade at Kellogg

Meridian Park Elementary, Ridgecrest Elementary and Syre Elementary all received the award of School of STEM Excellence for having the greatest number of participants in this year’s festival.

Drive a robot
Photo by Autumn Warriner

Shoreline STEM, the all-volunteer, community-driven, non-profit organization that hosts the festival, would like to offer a special thank you to the Shoreline School District, our many generous sponsors, student participants and their supporters, STEM career exhibitors, and our amazing volunteers from Shorewood Science Olympiad, Team Pronto, Shoreline Robotics, the Shorecrest TSA, and the entire community.

A complete list of sponsors and exhibitors can be found on our website.

Shoreline Community College helps us host the festival each because they support a STEM pipeline that stretches from young students to professionals.

The College is a leader in providing expansive opportunities in STEM education and are currently growing their campus with onsite housing to further promote student success.

Best way to stay connected to the Shoreline STEM Festival and its amazing supporters is by liking us on Facebook or following us on Twitter or Instagram!. You can also reach out through our website or email us at ShorelineSTEMFestival@gmail.com .