Student Immersion in Community and Industry

What we do that makes us unique!

Hands-on, Project Based, Experiential Learning

Weekly Field Trips

  • Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA)

  • Mosquito Hill Nature Center

  • Central Wisconsin Environmental Station (CWES)

  • School Forest

  • Waupaca Airport

  • Hartman Creek State Park

  • Packers Stadium

  • Extreme Air

  • Bubolz Nature Preserve

  • National Railroad Museum

Fremont STEM Academy Informational Video

Real-World Projects!

  • X-Wing Plane (Test and Improve Speed, Accuracy, and Distance)

  • Custom Radio (Construct a Fully-Functional Radio)

  • Aviation Circuitry (Build a Sensor for Air Speed and Pressure)

  • 3-D Model City (To-Scale Future City for Mars Colony)

  • Sea-Perch Submarine (Fabricate a Vessel for Underwater Missions)

  • Hydroponics (Build a Floating Garden for Flood Relief)

Business site tours and partnerships

The Academy is working to meet the needs of a diverse population of students in the Weyauwega Fremont and surrounding communities.

 

Program Description

Fostering ingenuity by encouraging passionate, innovative, and creative learners using real-world, hands-on experiences through Project-Based Learning (PBL) and STEM.

Community/Business/Industry Partnerships

The Academy is looking to develop a stronger partnership with community businesses and industry. These partnerships will guide service projects and hands-on learning opportunities.

  • Guide service projects

Science is an ideal subject for young learners

  • Hands-on labs and experiments

  • Develop problem-solving skills that empower them to participate in an increasingly scientific and technological world

  • Local business and industry in the Weyauwega Fremont School District support a STEM school

  • Focus on aeronautics through community industry support

Differentiated PBL Model

Cater to a larger variety of learning profiles to increase student engagement and achievement

  • Intentionality and Reciprocity: Teachers concentrate on students’ understanding and guide the process of information gathering, knowledge development, and knowledge application. 

  • Mediation of Meaning: Teachers interpret the impact of what students have accomplished. 

  • Transcendence (Bridging): Applications to new, meaningful, real-world situations, help students evolve from passive recipients of information to confident, self-regulated learners. 

  • Global Citizenship: In small rural areas of Wisconsin, such as the Weyauwega Fremont School District, students have little or no experience, personal or virtual, of the world outside the limited boundaries of their locale. The Academy will provide a form of civic learning that involves students’ active participation in projects that address global issues of social, political, economic, or environmental nature.

Curricular Model

Maximize enjoyment, engagement, learning, and productivity for 21st Century learning

Features autonomy, mastery, and purpose for everyone: administrators, teachers, staff, and students

  • Autonomy: A feeling of autonomy over task, time, team, and technique has a powerful effect on performance and attitude. Encouraging autonomy does not mean discouraging accountability, but having control over task, time, team, and technique as a pathway to learning. 

  • Mastery: Autonomy requires engagement. Engagement produces mastery or becoming more proficient at something that matters. Solving higher-level questions and challenges requires an inquiring mind, the willingness to experiment, and the environment to allow one to do so.    

  • Purpose: Purpose is the context for autonomy and mastery. We will infuse student learning and work with the desire to affect a greater and more enduring cause. Building upon the foundation of PBL inquiry with a STEM curricular focus, we give life to the STEM curricula through public (community) engagement.

College and Carrier Readiness

Prepare students with the skill set and workforce understanding needed to propel them into high school and beyond.

  • Partnerships with community business, industry, and Colleges

  • Emphasizing conceptual understanding over memorization of facts

  • Engagement in the practices of science and mathematics

  • Aligning with new standards in math and science

  • Ability to apply knowledge and skills within and across disciplines

Reduce Achievement Gaps

  • Address students who struggle in a traditional school setting

  • Innovative setting

  • Comprehensive approach

    • Exposure to new experiences

    • Community school approach

    • Technology and hands-on engagement

  • Clear goals

  • Guiding activities

  • Time for students to reflect

  • Sharing and applying knowledge

  • Culture of collaborations

  • Participation structures

  • Formative assessments that provide students with opportunities for revisions/growth

  • Multidimensional summative assessments

Critical Thinking

  • 21st-century skill

  • Allowing and encouraging creativity and interest-based inquiry

  • Asking guiding questions and providing resources for independent research

  • Asking students to solve problems rather than giving them answers

  • Promoting collaborative learning to develop teamwork and self-discipline, and to improve social and interpersonal skills 

  • Engaging, community-based, authentic problem-solving alternatives to the traditional classroom, which often overwhelms or bores educationally disadvantaged students

  • A variety of real-life experiences to jar their thinking and imagination

  • Expectations for academic success with the outcome of more-rewarding career tracks

  • Curricular diversity will provide a greater degree of personalization

Student Handbook