The fifth-graders in Rebecca Logan’s science class faced a tough task: build a bird feeder – squirrel proof, no less – from an assortment of plastic jugs, tape, string and coat hangers. It isn’t necessarily Logan’s strongest academic students who excel at hands-on engineering projects, but when she spots that talent, she can steer them toward Elkhorn Middle School’s STEM program. She said “When they got to class this year, they thought an engineer was a person who worked with trains or a person who fixed things, but now they see it differently.”
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