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Annual STEM Fair to move to new venue
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Posted on Aug 12 2019
Although registration has not started yet, the committee in charge of planning the annual islandwide STEM Fair has already Marianas High School to host the event after two consecutive years of being held at the ChaCha Oceanview Middle School.
In a short interview with STEM Fair committee member Asapmar Ogumoro, he said that they have already decided to declare MHS as the next venue.
“The committee wanted to move the STEM Fair around the island every two years. For the last two years, we were at ChaCha [but] now we will be at the Marianas High school, then the next plan is Saipan Southern High School,” he said.
Ogumoro said the committee’s priority was if the venue could handle both the traffic and the liveliness of the fair.
“It could change but we have to find a venue that can accommodate the busyness of the event and the traffic next year,” he said.
Ogumoro could not confirm the actual date of the STEM Fair but he did say that it will surely be held around March as it usually is. Currently, STEM Fair packets are still being reviewed so until it is completed and ready to be released, the committee is refraining from giving an actual date.
“We’re reviewing our STEM Fair packets right now, and once that gets concurred and approved by all the people involved, we will release it to the students, teachers, and parents. Annually, it’s in March. It might be earlier but we haven’t released the packet yet so I don’t want to release any dates until that has been confirmed. It’s going to happen and I know we have students ready to sign up,” he said.
STEM is an acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. A STEM Fair is fair where research or Inquiry projects in any of these areas will be displayed for the public to view and they will also be judged. Students in any grade level can present their projects in this fair.
