Livingston Parish Public Schools unveiled its highly-anticipated community mobile classroom unit during its monthly principals meeting at the Suma Professional Development Center on Wednesday, Oct. 10.
Laptops and touch-screen monitors line the built-in shelves of the STEAM Express, a traveling learning space that engages people in science, technology, engineering, arts and math.
A Piper Computer Kit is one of many gadgets inside the STEAM Express.
Joe Murphy, assistant superintendent for Livingston Parish Public Schools, singles out those who contributed to the school district’s STEAM Express, a mobile makerspace unit that will travel to schools and the community.
Nikki Lavergne, right, of the Livingston Parish school district’s Instructional Technology department, demonstrates one of the touch-screen monitors in the STEAM Express.
Magnets, robots and building blocks are piled atop a shelf in the Livingston Parish school district’s new STEAM Express, a traveling classroom that will visit schools and communities alike.
An Osmo monitor is stationed on a built-in shelf topped with dry erase board in the Livingston Parish schools district’s STEAM Express.
Bananas are hooked to a computer via circuits that enable the user to play the piano, one of several educational games setup in the Livingston Parish school district’s new STEAM Express.
Project sponsors and principals test out an Osmo computer during the unveiling ceremony for the Livingston Parish schools district’s new STEAM Express.
Pictured is the STEAM Express that the Livingston Parish school district unveiled during a ceremony on Wednesday, Oct. 10. The express, formerly a bus, is equipped with Wi-Fi, touch-screen monitors and laptops, built-in shelves topped with dry erase boards, flexible seating, and hands-on, interactive modules to help students learn a variety of subjects.
Pictured from left, South Fork Elementary Principal Allison Raborn and South Walker Elementary Principal Belinda Avant check out the latest instructional technology that will be made available to Livingston Parish students on the STEAM Express.
Instructional Technology Facilitator Lynn Kennedy shows Freshwater Elementary Principal Julie Dugas how to operate a technology game that teaches computer coding to students. The technology game is one of several that will be made available to students on the STEAM Express.
