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STARBASE is a premier educational program sponsored by the office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs. The program provides 20 -25 hours of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) curriculum to fifth grade students.
STARBASE uses a “hands-on, mind-on” approach to learning as students explore such concepts as Newton’s Law of Motion, Properties and states of matter, metric measurements, nanotechnology, and engineering and design.
The off- site program reaches students from rural areas that would not be able to experience STARBASE at one of its established sites.
To date, the North Carolina STARBASE Program has served over 50,000 students in 86 counties throughout North Carolina. Communities In Schools of Rutherford County Executive Director, Charlotte Epley, explained, “We have been privileged to have STARBASE in Rutherford County on two earlier occasions, once at Forest City-Dunbar Elementary and again at Spindale Elementary. A mother of one of the former participants declares STARBASE started her daughter’s love of science and resulted in a Science Award at the middle school the next year.”
STARBASE under the command of Barbara Miller will be at Forrest W. Hunt Elementary through Friday.
Article furnished by: Charlotte Ware Epley;
Executive Director Communities In Schools of Rutherford County
