A remote Navajo reservation school is broadening its instruction through a makerspace for an unde... more A remote Navajo reservation school is broadening its instruction through a makerspace for an underrepresented and disadvantaged population of students. The Little Singer Community School (LSCS) is located in Birdspring, Arizona, in the southwestern portion of the Navajo Nation in northeastern Arizona. Students attending the school have limited access to enhanced learning experiences. Two LSCS teachers, Wilphina Becenti and Thomas "Tom" Tomas, have master's degrees with an emphasis in bilingual education, specifically pertaining to Navajo and English languages, so most students receive some instruction in the Navajo language and culture. But prior to this program there was little training in STEM literacy and makerspace pedagogy, and LSCS lacked equipment to provide strong training in engineering and the sciences overall. That all changed in 2017, when LSCS partnered with NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS), the
A remote Navajo reservation school is broadening its instruction through a makerspace for an unde... more A remote Navajo reservation school is broadening its instruction through a makerspace for an underrepresented and disadvantaged population of students. The Little Singer Community School (LSCS) is located in Birdspring, Arizona, in the southwestern portion of the Navajo Nation in northeastern Arizona. Students attending the school have limited access to enhanced learning experiences. Two LSCS teachers, Wilphina Becenti and Thomas "Tom" Tomas, have master's degrees with an emphasis in bilingual education, specifically pertaining to Navajo and English languages, so most students receive some instruction in the Navajo language and culture. But prior to this program there was little training in STEM literacy and makerspace pedagogy, and LSCS lacked equipment to provide strong training in engineering and the sciences overall. That all changed in 2017, when LSCS partnered with NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS), the
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