Author: lim_jane

Seniors in St. Vrain Valley’s Emergency Medical Technician class aren’t just learning about how to deliver life-saving first aid, they’re also teaching it to district staff members. On Wednesday, students led a two-hour session for 15 staff members at St. Vrain Valley’s Career Elevation and Technology Center. They talked about using tourniquets, how to treat […]

The Innovation Center of St. Vrain Valley Schools brought the community together on Saturday to show what artificial intelligence is capable of at the district’s first “Day of AI” event. Innovation Center AI program manager Mai Vu coordinated the event, which ran from 2 to 5 p.m. Vu said she wanted the event to show the public […]

Secondary schools in St. Vrain Valley Schools are hosting open houses to answer questions and share information about the many program offerings available across the district as families begin planning their transition to middle and high school next year. Below are upcoming open house dates across the district. For questions regarding open houses, programming, or […]

As Christine Sparks adjusted some finicky lab equipment for an experiment on solubility, she shared a story with fellow AP chemistry teachers about a similar experiment that went wrong in one of her Lakewood High School classes. Going into her sixth year as an AP chemistry teacher, Sparks said she signed up for this week’s […]

High school and college students from around the world are spending three days at Longmont’s Silver Creek High School for an underwater robotics competition showcasing how remotely operated vehicles can operate in the real world. Altogether, about 60 teams are participating from 11 countries and 18 U.S. states. Along with St. Vrain’s Innovation Center team, […]

In its second year, the St. Vrain Valley School District Career and Job Fair gave hundreds of high schoolers an opportunity Friday to explore what their futures might hold. The fair was split into morning and afternoon sessions, held simultaneously at the SVVSD Innovation Center, 33 Quail Road, and the Career Elevation and Technology Center, […]

St. Vrain Valley’s special education department collaborated with the Innovation Center to host the district’s first unified robotics event Tuesday. The school district already offers unified music programs, unified physical education classes and unified sports. Tuesday’s event was an opportunity to make the district’s large robotics program more accessible, organizers said.

High school students manned tables offering a smorgasbord of robots, building materials, coding kits and other high-tech toys on Wednesday at St. Vrain Valley’s Innovation Center, giving elementary students a chance to try some of the district’s technology. “There’s a lot going on here,” said Erie High senior Jared Ingmire, an Innovation Center student designer […]