Ms. DeHart created the STEM Impressionists group at Glasgow Middle School to engage students in STEM activities that could be showcased in college applications and resumes. The group's objectives are to explore STEM careers through guest speakers, teach STEM skills to others, and introduce STEM in the community. In its inaugural 2016-2017 year, the group participated in various STEM competitions and outreach events like an hour of code, engineering week, and a NASA challenge. They also partnered with George Mason University to create and teach a workshop for 100 girls at a summer STEM camp.

1. STEM Impressionists
2016-2017
Inaugural Year

2. The story behind..

3. The STEM Impressionists
Ms. DeHart created the STEM Impressionists Group to work with Glasgow Students who are interested in exploring
STEM. The main objectives for this club are:
1) To ensure that the participants engage in STEM activities that are documented and can be showcased. Recording
student engagement in STEM activities not only gives them the ability to evidence the quality of their
knowledge/skills but offers them the opportunity to create a resume that can be used to support their qualifications
when they are applying to colleges and for scholarships.
2) To create an avenue of career exploration by introducing students to different STEM career paths. Providing
students with an opportunity to speak to experts in different STEM fields allows them to get a feel as they narrow
their interests. Being able to teach STEM skills to others gives students a solid hands-on interaction with the
topic/tool as well as having a more in-depth understanding of how the topic/tool works.
3) To introduce STEM to students and their peers. This attribute affords students with the opportunity to give back
to their community, it allows them to gain professional presentation/communication as well as the practical hands-
on skills they need to prepare them for their 21st-century careers.
The STEM Impressionists Group is hands-on and innovative. It empowers students with leadership and entrepreneurial skills and
prepares them for real world challenges in various fields.

4. The Invitation
You are being invited to a presentation of an
opportunity that I would like to offer to a group of
students next year. The intent of participation in this
group is for each student to walk away with a STEM
experience that will allow them to earn scholarship
money for college and place their activities in alignment
with going to the top Ivy/significant school in the US.
If you would like to hear my presentation please come
to my room today during academic time.
We meet in F226 on Wednesdays during academic time

5. 2016-2017 Activities

6. Open Campus

7. 1st QTR Open Campus

8. 2nd QTR Open Campus

9. 2nd QTR Open Campus

10. Hour of Code

11. Elementary School Presentation

12. Elementary School Presentation

13. Family Night

14. Hack-a-thon

15. Scratch Meet-up

16. DC Scratch Meetup

17. National Engineering Week

18. National Engineering Week

19. National Engineering Week

20. National Engineering Week

21. NASA Challenge

22. NASA Challenge

23. https://goo.gl/eB5S8h

26. Paradigm Challenge

28. http://coding4solutions.weebly.com/

30. PTA STEM Expo

33. Robert H. Herndon
Memorial Science
Competition

37. Lottery
Super Teacher

41. Celebration Party

43. http://wjla.com/news/local/fairfax-county-middle-school-teacher-wins-super-teacher-award

44. http://viewpure.com/DeHartWins

45. with
Children’s Museum
Collaboration

49. Sasha Alton
Guest Speaker:

52. FOCUS
George Mason University’s
Girls STEM Camp

53. After School STEM Club Partners with George Mason STEM Camp
Students in Glasgow’s STEM Impressionists after school club are partnering with George
Mason University STEM Accelerator Program and Girls Inspired and Ready to Lead, Inc. to
deliver a student-created summer school seminar for the participants of the Females of Color
and those Underrepresented in STEM (F.O.C.U.S.) summer STEM camp for girls.
Founded in 2014 with 19 girls, the camp has grown to 100 girls and 22 counselors with the
financial support of organizations such as the Business Women’s Giving Circle, Battelle
Corporation, and VA Bio.
FOCUS is a week-long camp which exposes females to a variety of disciplines within science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The camp specifically targets middle
school females, an age where studies have shown an interest in STEM begins to significantly
decline. The camp is presented in a fun, hands-on, intellectually stimulating format designed
to elevate their interests again (https://cos.gmu.edu/stem/archives/focus-camp-2016/).

54. A teacher and alumni of George Mason, Tim Stuecheli, saw the article “Bringing STEM into
FOCUS” (https://spirit.gmu.edu/2016/10/bringing-stem-into-focus/) and gave it to Angela
DeHart, the teacher who facilitates Glasgow’s Girls Coding and STEM Impressionists clubs. On
March 31, 2016 Glasgow’s STEM Impressionists met with George Mason University’s FOCUS
summer STEM camp coordinator Kelly Knight, a middle school student who participated in the
FOCUS camp and several FOCUS counselors who recently graduated or are in the process of
completing a Mason STEM undergraduate degree.
As each group gave a presentation about their STEM activities excitement in the room built
until it became reasonably obvious that there was a great deal of value in finding an opportunity
for our two organizations to collaborate. The conclusion? Glasgow’s STEM Impressionists
accepted Ms. Knight’s offer to teach at George Mason’s 2017 summer STEM camp program for
girls.
On Tuesday, June 27th, from 9am to 3:30 Glasgow’s STEM Impressionists will run a 1 hour and
10 minute long STEM workshop for all 100 of George Mason’s FOCUS camp participants. The
STEM Impressionists will be offering a coordinated session that will integrate robotics with e-
textiles and engineering.

55. Information featured on FCPS School News

60. Summer
Robotics Camp

62. http://viewpure.com/Mistakes http://viewpure.com/Improving

63. Scratch
Certificationat the KID Museum