Bilateral student thinkers wanted. :) Critical and creative thinking mind map: can you tell what brain space we're in over here Dogwood STEAM? #ourfcps #dogwoodfairfax

Watch this 2nd grade pair receive an almost perfect score as they choreograph and color code their Ozobot to figure skate across the ice in our Ozobot Olympics! Beautiful technical and artistic merit. 🏅Yes!!! #dogwoodfairfax #fcpssteam

Today is Nat'l "Introduce a girl to #engineering day!" 😍 Let's celebrate by doing it! Our female engineers-to-be DogwoodES FairfaxVA want to thank community partners for providing access & opportunity for our students. #Qualcomm #VT_ThinkabitLab #tjpartnership #ChildSci #SciGirls

Before - Mr. Moseley faithfully sets up before school. After - 5th and 6th grade students fill 200 planters to be delivered to classes as seed starters for kids to learn how to plant and care for Dogwood’s vegetable gardens! #fcpsscience FCPS Get2Green

Our student experts will be there to present and we’ll have Makerspace activities for you to enjoy! Hope to see you there. :) x.com/makerfairenova…

Final award ceremony for our 1st grade Olympians! Design a snowboarder using aluminum foil, duct tape, and popsicle sticks to quickly travel down our Olympic slope, without the snowboarder falling down. #2018olympics #dogwoodfairfax #fcpssteam #saditsover

Yes we’re excited! And yes we’re prepping for MakerFaire NoVa this Sunday from 11am-5pm where DogwoodES FairfaxVA Ss will be our experts. Look at this amazing banner that our uber talented art teachers, Michelle Riddle & Lauren Preti drew and designed! ❤️❤️ #fcpssteam #AinSTEAM

Our experience MakerFaire NoVa was amazing yesterday. ❤️🤜👏Our student experts wowed us with their maturity as #communicators! Even our librarian Terry Orvis was there to showcase her #makerspace with a design challenge! Brimming w/DogwoodES FairfaxVA pride! Go Dragons!#fcpssteam

Thank you ChildrensSciCenter and SciGirls for 8 weeks of amazing STEAM experiences for our LatinScGirls, capped with a fiesta and prizes! We trust these opportunities can change life trajectories for our girl scientists-to-be Herndon Elementary HES Lib-STEM-Tech DogwoodES FairfaxVA. Grateful to you.

One of our bulletin boards with a surprise portrait made by our lovely art teachers, complete with a sneaky St. Patrick’s day surprise. Silliness aside, read why we DogwoodES FairfaxVA value providing a culture of creativity and critical thinking through STEAM experiences.

Our DogwoodES FairfaxVA students were invited to participate at the USA Science and Engineering Conference USA Science Festival in DC. Thanks to our awesome AART Jean Wyche for organizing this for our students! We’re proud of our #communicators and #risk-takers today! #fcpssteam

We are on our way to the NOVA SEAS (School Environmental Action Showcase) Conference at George Mason! Teams of 5th and 6th grade students will be presenting their proposals for the ‘Caring for our Watersheds’ competition! 🤞@novaseas18 FCPS Get2Green DogwoodES FairfaxVA FCPS STEAM

Yup! DogwoodES FairfaxVA made it to the top 10 to compete for the @NOVASEAS18 Watershed competition. The only ES! Our teams presented and placed in the 5th and 10th place.👊 SO PROUD! Thank you Mr. Moseley for your leadership and for the wonderful experiences for our ss. #fcpssteam

Third grade young scholars DogwoodES FairfaxVA explored simple machines with ChildrensSciCenter yesterday!

It’s hard to get everyone in the picture at the same time, but our STEAM team (minus our wonderful art teachers) are feeling appreciated this week DogwoodES FairfaxVA!

Behold our future outdoor classroom to promote mindfulness thanks to Lowe's! From idea, to STEAM collaboration, to proposal, and to hear that our art teachers Lauren Preti and Michelle Riddle received a $5K to carry out this vision, we are so excited! 🎉 FCPS STEAM FCPS Get2Green

Spring is here! Our younger grades are planting gladiolus flowers around our DogwoodES FairfaxVA campus to attract more pollinators and look at how they’re growing! FCPS Get2Green

Our Ss DogwoodES FairfaxVA designed speakers that actually work! “A student begins to see herself not merely as someone who can make things but as a maker, she develops a new orientation toward who she is as an individual in the world”, Clapp from Maker Centered Learning FCPS STEAM

When asked to design a new technology to solve a problem in her day, this girl’s invention was to create a clothing folder to help her family! #developagency #innovator #makerempowerment DogwoodES FairfaxVA FCPS STEAM

When you’re stressed, use this hand massager as designed by a student DogwoodES FairfaxVA! “The great promises of Maker-centered learning is its potential to empower students to notice, redesign & reinvent the designed dimensions of their world” by Edward Clapp. FCPS STEAM #agency