Liberty STEAM Charter School holds 2nd STEAM Workforce Development Day with local businesses

Sumter's Liberty STEAM Charter School wrapped up its second-annual STEAM Workforce Development Day, a series of events in three days spread out over two months to intentionally introduce the community’s local workforce development needs to the scholars at both campuses through project-based learning. This year, there were 32 business partners. On day one, a partner meets class and learns about the project, on day two the partner and teachers teach the project together and introduce the company, and on day three, each class gives their pitch of what they learned and how they solved the problem.

For the Elementary Academy, the winners of the Capstone presentations were:

Second grade: Taking Action in Texas with SAFE Federal Credit Union
Third grade: Calculating in Costa Rica with Rival Design Build
Fourth grade: Persevering in Puerto Rico with Thompson Safety

For the Primary Academy, the winners of the Capstone Pitch presentations were:

Kindergarten: Bingo Brainiacs Class of 2037 with Palmetto Family Dentistry
First grade: Wonderful One-Ups Class of 2037 with eVAC

Kindergarten and fourth grade had health sciences partners.

First grade: engineering technology cluster
Second grade: business technology
Third grade: industrial technology

The clusters represent Sumter’s 4 greatest workforce development needs. Each class had a chance to practice important soft skills in a real-life setting.