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New COVID-19 restrictions will prohibit at indoor dining, personal gatherings New STEAM program Alsup Elementary The students will learn about space BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The stars, space and the planets were on everyone’s minds Aug. 16 when Alsup Elementary debuted a brand-new school and STEAM program with a celebration. “It’s a great event that we have today and a great school. We want to make sure that all of our parents everywhere in our community know that they can have access to programs like this in school. So we’re going to be working hard and diligently to make sure that every single one of our students regardless of where they are within our district can have access to opportunities,” said Dr. Karla Loria, Instructional Coach and STEAM Coordinator Hattie Buikema helping a student blast off superintendent for Adams 14 School the rocket they built. PHOTO BY BELEN WARD District. The newly built state-of-the-art Mathematics. STEAM adds “Arts” to such as space suits, and what was it like as a kid to have an astronaut elementary opened last week August that list. dad. Giant maps of the moon and Mars 10th with a STEAM program which Dr. Andrew Aldrin is the president were designed for the children to stands for science, technology, engiof the Aldrin Family Foundation learn about the planetary system neering, arts, and mathematics. and ShareSpace Education, a chariand also work on creating robotics. Principal Dawn Menard said it’s table organization committed to “With the maps, all of our stusomething new for the kids and the bringing education of STEAM and dents will get a chance to drive and teachers. space exploration to students of all walk over Mars and on the moon. “We are in our first week of ages and economic backgrounds. It’s They will also work with roversschool, and it is our first STEAM Dr. Aldrin foundation that designs real-life rovers. It’s just an amazing education. Last year the board approved our application to be a STEM opportunity that our kiddos deserve the giant space maps for the schools. “We want to get him excited about and they deserve nothing but the school. Dr. Loria has come here to learning, and space gets kids excitbest. I’m so excited,” said Principal join us and started to present us ed. Some of them will be astronauts, Menard. with all these wonderful opportunisome of them will be engineers, othAt the event, the kids got the ties for our kids.” ers are going on to Arnold be construction opportunity to meet Dr. Andrew Schools have been talking about By Ellis managers. This is fun because you Aldrin the son testing of the famous improving and techthe educaA long line science of cars outside city of Brighton’s rapid site at astroColorado Community can do anything on earthMedia and Mars. naut Buzz Aldrin. The kids asked tion, or STEM, which stands for SciRiverdale Regional Park. The site has had to close early many days in recent It’s going be a lot more interesting him several questions about his dad ence, Technology, Engineering and
weeks due to high demand. Adams County’s 14-day test positivity rate was 15.9 percent, as of Nov. 17, according to Tri-County Health Department. Brighton and Commerce City’s test New positivity rates were both higher than location 13 percent. Forty-five people in Brighton and 29 in Commerce City have died from COVID-19 related health issues. To limit the spread of COVID-19, at least 15 counties moved to tighter restrictions that prohibits indoor and personal gatherings.
As Denver metro counties continue to inch closer to local stay-at-home orders under Colorado’s system of coronavirusrelated restrictions, the state announced a new level of rules that prohibits indoor dining and personal gatherings — a change that applies to the majority of the Denver metro area and many counties in other regions. The state’s COVID-19 dial, which has been in effect since September, is the set of different levels of restrictions that each
and more challenging- that’s education,” said Dr. Aldrin. Jim Christensen is the Executive Director for Sharespace Education which is the K-12 branch of the Aldrin Family Foundation. Christensen is the designer of giant maps of Mars and the moon for the kids to learn about the planets in an interactive setting. “Dr. Aldrin allowed me to go out and be creative. He wants to see the kids engaged and inspired. I spend my days trying to figure out how to do that and how to take an idea that has some complexity to it, and turn it into something intuitive for kids,” said Christensen. “ It’s a natural fit and this is a school district that the superintendent is about inspiring kids. I’m impressed with the teachers I’ve met here. The administration, the teachers are the first rate, and this building is gorgeous,” he added. Hattie Buikema Instructional Coach and STEAM coordinator brought the kids out during the event to demonstrate a rocket they built and blasted it off. “They built the rocket from scratch and tiny, tiny pieces. They cut the pieces into the cardboard and measured down to inches. They did it all within just a few days of school. It’s what we’ve already accomplished. They also worked on how to operate the machinery. I’m very proud of them and it’s handsoff activity, “ said Buikema. State Senator Dominic Moreno was also at the event for the opening of the new school and STEAM program. county is required to follow based on the “It’s incredible, startspread. it off severity of a county’sand localtovirus
The dial grew out of the state’s safer-atSEE STEAM, P4 home order — the policy that came after the statewide stay-at-home order this spring and allowed numerous types of businesses to reopen. Scan to apply or visit The state recently switched to color amazon.com/startnow identifiers — levels blue, yellow and orange rather than numbered levels — to avoid confusion. Until Nov. 17, level red meant a stay-at-home order. Now, level red — “severe risk” — is the second-
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