STEMx: April 4, 2022

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Wednesday for STEMx we welcomed RN, Tonya Rupe from EIRMC,  John Collins an air traffic controller and Aelin Allegood an Olympic athlete. 



Students learned about the dangers of vaping  including seriously nasty wounds, what it takes to control 3,500 planes in the sky at the same time and an Olympic athlete asked us what our own Olympic sized dream was.



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