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☀️ Summer fun is still going strong, but so is the learning! At Ga Tech Atlanta's Center for Education Integrating Science Math and Computing (CEISMC) camp, creativity and curiosity came together as students explored big ideas through the arts.

ArtsNOW Staff and Teacher Leaders guided campers through a week-long Creature Creation Lab, where students stepped into the role of designers, engineers, and storytellers as they tackled a STEAM adventure focused on climate change & animal adaptations.

Using the Engineering Design Process, campers:

📋 Designed original creatures that reflected unique strengths & innovative solutions to a climate problem.

🪚 Brought their ideas to life with Makedo tools, cardboard, and other creative materials.

💡 Developed original stories that explored how their creatures move, live, and contribute to their imagined worlds.

Collaboration, communication, problem-solving, and creative thinking were alive every step of the way. The week concluded with a family showcase where campers proudly shared their creations and celebrated everything they had learned. Thanks to all who joined us for this incredible week!

More exciting news to share - and some very special schools to welcome/welcome back! 😉🎉💛

ArtsNOW is thrilled to introduce the six partner schools joining us for EXCEL — Expanding Creativity in Early Literacy through Arts Integration — a $3.98 million federal initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Education that will run through 2030.

Welcome to the EXCEL family:

⭐️ Hapeville Elementary School (Fulton County Schools)
⭐️ Vickery Mill Elementary (Fulton County Schools)
⭐️ New Prospect Elementary (Spartanburg, SC)
⭐️ Holly Springs-Motlow Elementary School (Spartanburg, SC)
⭐️ Pleasant Grove Elementary School (Jefferson County, AL)
⭐️ Fultondale Elementary School (Jefferson County, AL)

Over the next five years, more than 4,000 students will experience literacy instruction connected to visual arts, music, dance, and theatre.

More than 120 teachers per year will engage in sustained professional learning and coaching.

And more than 400 arts-integrated literacy lessons will be developed and shared with educators far beyond these schools.

Here's to five years of creativity, literacy, and learning that sticks.💛

https://artsnowlearning.org/artsnow-awarded-3-98-million-federal-grant-to-expand-early-literacy-through-arts-integration/