STEM Saturday Inspires Future Changemakers

On Saturday, October 4, three members of the LET'S GO staff — Angela, Kandace, and Melissa — led engaging STEM Saturday sessions at Lindale Middle School and Old Mill Middle School. More than 100 eighth-grade students participated in this exciting day of learning and discovery.

Throughout the event, students worked on their Changemaker Projects, focusing on key aspects of scientific investigation. Changemaker Projects are student passion projects where they identify a societal problem and then engineer a solution tailored to meet the challenges of this problem. The goal of these STEM Saturdays is to help students develop these projects through identifying variables, creating appropriate tables and graphs, and completing research data for the problem they chose. During this particular STEM Saturday, they identified independent and dependent variables, created data tables to organize their findings, and learned how to apply research data to strengthen their project designs.

In the second half of the session, students explored how to find reliable and relevant research data to support their ideas, deepening their understanding of how data-driven insights can improve real-world problem-solving.

The event was a powerful reminder of how STEM education empowers students to think critically, explore creatively, and make meaningful change in their communities.

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