Staff participate in Turkey Trot at Mount Vernon STEAM Academy

On Wednesday, December 4, 2024, the Mount Vernon Youth Bureau partnered with Mount Vernon STEAM Academy to host the second annual World AIDS Day Assembly for juniors and seniors. The event featured a powerful presentation by guest speaker Justin Toro, an associate director at Montefiore Hospital, who shared valuable insights on HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention. 

Meredith Jaffess, Physical Educator at Mount Vernon STEAM Academy, hosted a Turkey Trot for staff in the early morning hours on Wednesday, November 27, 2024. Staff walked or jogged around the gym to burn calories moving into the Thanksgiving holiday.  

Pace University’s Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems led robot and drone presentations and a STEAM T-shirt design contest at Mount Vernon STEAM Academy. The school held its STEM Day on Thursday, November 21, 2024. 

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Dr. Devon John, chief of renal transplantation at Westchester Medical Center, discussed his career as a surgeon with students in Rene Patterson’s Anatomy and Physiology classes at Mount Vernon STEAM Academy on Tuesday, November 19, 2024. Students have been learning about body systems in the class and asked the surgeon questions related to their learning during his visit.

Students at Mount Vernon STEAM Academy are applying a semester’s worth of knowledge and scientific principles from Ana Rodriguez’s engineering class to create simple machines for their midterm projects. Students partnered up and got hands-on experience by creating simple machines such as pulleys, wheels and axles, and inclined planes on Wednesday, November 13, 2024. 

The Mount Vernon STEAM Academy held its Mini College Fair Week featuring universities and programs nationwide that visited and introduced themselves to students.

On Friday, November 8, 2024, the Mount Vernon STEAM Academy successfully hosted their seventh annual American Red Cross Blood Drive. Students aged 16 years and older had the opportunity to safely donate their blood in the school’s small gymnasium. They collectively donated about 31 pints of blood, saving up to 93 lives from blood diseases such as sickle cell anemia and different types of cancers. 

Two to three times a year, Ashley Wallace’s ninth grade English class transforms into a café that you would typically see in Paris, as students read and enjoy the ambiance. The Parisian book café is designed to excite students about reading and establish a familiarity with the classroom library.