BRIDGEPORT — Michael DeLeon and Joseph Gonzalez met five days ago at STEM camp and bonded over the creation of an app that can quiz one’s mathematical abilities.
What the soon-to-be Fairchild Wheeler Interdistrict Magnet high school freshmen — one from Bridgeport and the other from Stratford — really learned, however, was how project-based learning works.
“I didn’t expect to do something like this,” Deleon said of working in a team to develop a game that challenges players to solve math problems before time runs out.
Learning to navigate the three-wing, four-story school was gravy.
Gonzalez and DeLeon said that when school starts on Aug. 29 they won’t feel so alone at a school of 1,500 students from more than a dozen communities.
The Science, Technology, Engineering and Math camp has been “a way for them to get their feet wet,” said Beth Furnani, an assistant principal at the three-school complex.
In its fourth year, the weeklong program is open to all incoming freshmen. About 200 of an anticipated 375 member freshmen class participated. The week culminated Friday in a presentation for parents.
In the Aerospace school, students worked on designing models of a lunar landing craft — paying homage to the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
In the Biotech school, some students designed DNA necklaces and others worked with hydroponic plants — grown without soil but with mineral water.
And in the Information Technology school, students not only developed apps but worked on coding projects and set up an Instagram site.
“At Classical (Studies Magnet Academy) we did project-based learning but didn’t get as wrapped up in it as...
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