Stemtree of Spring TX: STEM Education Center—Experiment, Iterate, Succeed
The first time I watched a group of kindergarteners wire a simple circuit, I realized a classroom can be a laboratory of curiosity without feeling clinical. The room smelled faintly of dry erase markers and coffee from a late afternoon visit, and a cluster of kids circled a plastic tote filled with scavenged electronics. They didn’t know it, but they were building belonging as they learned. The project was modest: a battery, a LED, a few wires, and a timer that forced them