Fairmount Elementary

🔥 Big congratulations to Nate Bierbrauer, the 2026 Bertha Campbell Scholarship winner! 🎓🏆

Your commitment, leadership, and perseverance have made our Firebird family proud.🐦‍🔥

Keep soaring as you head to Fordham University! 🤍❤️✨

SOAR

Principals on the edge! #2025-2026schoolyear

When can you play video games in class?
A. When you’ve created them
B. When the topic relates to the science curriculum
C. When you’re learning about science and technology
D. All of the above

Slowing down the action in STEM so you can see first grade physics and even more entertaining, the student reactions. 😮😳🫢😬😲

Kindergarten engineers imagine, sketch, build and test their boats on a “river”. 🛥️ 🚤 🛶

Annual Fifth Grade Egg Drop!
Vehicle Criteria: weight must be > 1lb, perimeter needs to be 48” or less, and hold a raw egg dropped from the roof
Recording: velocity, accuracy, and damage.
🥚 🍳🥚🍳🥚🍳

Four pillars of Root Robot.
Drawing ✍️
Music 🎶
Sensors 👁️
Coding 💻

Fourth graders take their STEM skills to the next level with the Root Robot! These roboticists are mastering digital drawing, musical composition, sensor logic, with computational thinking. 🎶 🎨 💻 🤖

Third graders utilize a digital simulation to identify how simple components combine to create complex systems. Students are hypothesizing and testing combinations to discover how matter and environments change. 🧬🧪💻

Fifth graders program a micro:bit to 8gs to test their egg drop vehicles in the classroom.
❌ = failure followed by redesign, retest
😀 = success followed by a victory dance