About Us

• Education allows students to become thinkers, problem solvers, and innovators.
• Connections to the local, national, and global communities add meaning to the learning process.
• Education transforms students when it is knowledge driven.
• We are all a culmination of our experiences; this allows us to choose, think, and act.
• A literate society is our planet’s survival.
• Respect, trust, integrity for all people.
• Students can and will change the world.
• Global stewardship: solutions for the common good.

• Problem-Based Learning
• Professional Learning Community
• Integrated curricula
• Scientific inquiry
• Constructivist learning

• Learning environments to enrich the mind, spark the imagination, and ignite intellectual risk taking.

• Rigorous academic concepts are coupled with real-world lessons.
• Application of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics is placed in the context of problem solving (Problem-Based Learning).
• Connections between school, work, community, and global enterprise enable the development of STEM literacy.
• Students are educated to compete in our global society.
• Student interest is enhanced in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics professions.
• STEM education is fused with the social sciences, humanities, law, business, and world language needed to address complex societal issues.
• Students are prepared to translate invention to innovation, working in defined STEM Lab Concentrations.

• Problem-solvers—-able to define questions and problems, design investigations to gather data, collect and organize data, draw conclusions, and then apply understandings to new and novel situations.
• Innovators—creatively use science, mathematics, and technology concepts and principles by applying them to the engineering design process.
• Inventors—recognize the needs of the world and creatively design, test, redesign, and then implement solutions (engineering process).
• Self-reliant—able to use initiative and self-motivation to set agendas, develop and gain self-confidence, and work within time specified frames.
• Logical thinkers—able to apply rational and logical thought processes of science, mathematics, and engineering design to innovation and invention.
• Technologically literate—-understand and explain the nature of technology, develop the skills needed, and apply technology appropriately.

·Genie/Terex Corporation
·Glacier River Design
·Integrus Architecture
·MicroGreen Polymers
·AT&T
·Data I/O Corporation
·Studio 216
·TiE Young Entrepreneurs
·Washington State Patrol Crime Lab
·City of Redmond
·City of Sammamish
·Teals Program/Microsoft
·Absher Construction
·Washington Trail Association
·Cascadia Community College
·UW Bothell
·Western Washington University
·University of Texas, Austin/Cockrell School of Engineering
·Cyber Patriots/Air Force Association
·National Center for Women and Information Technology
·Waste Management
·Paul G. Allen Family Foundation