By Kim Moore
SIATech South Sacramento High School opened last year and is the newest SIATech campus. This classroom-based charter school is SIATech’s only California campus that is focused on at-promise students in the Sacramento community.
SIATech South Sacramento’s Summer Scholar Program is currently in session. The goals of this summer school session are to offer enrolled students a way to continue their forward progress toward graduation. The program provides small group cohort learning in First Aid/CPR leading to Certification and PE credit as well as engaging activities relevant to World History and Global Citizenry. The Summer Scholar Program has helped students who are working on their Senior/Special Projects to collaborate and interact with interesting hands-on activities. Overall, the Summer Scholar Program builds a culture of cohort accountability and community that will carry through to the start of the next school year in Fall 2019.
One example of classroom activities include a science project involving bottle rockets. South Sacramento students built and launched bottle rockets, applying the scientific method and the engineering design process. Students analyzed why some rockets reached a higher altitude, followed a more predictable trajectory than others and theorized about what variables could be changed for future launches to achieve improved results.
In other exciting news, SIATech South Sacramento’s continued construction is nearly complete! The additional space will provide collaborative work spaces, open space learning for students to move around with laptops, and community partner “office hours.” Watch for SIATech team at the National Night Out on August 6 as well as Back-to-School community events at the school’s neighboring apartment complexes to spread the word about its open enrollment for the Fall. To learn more about enrollment at SIATech South Sacramento, visit www.siatech.org/enroll.
