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Morgan Josey Glover
Greensboro News & Record
10/23/2011
In Kim Forbes’ classroom — behind the boomerang-shaped desks, power tools, computers, wind tunnel and slew of competition trophies — is a case full of technology textbooks.
Students rarely open them.
Instead, they design video games, create cold-case files and build bottle rockets and miniature fuel cell cars. Forbes, a technology teacher at Ferndale Middle, has one advantage: Her students face no state exams, so they can focus on hands-on activities.
This kind of learning has become more common in Guilford County classrooms as educators improve how they teach science, technology, engineering and math. Leaders believe a focus on STEM education, as it’s called, will better prepare young people for the technical jobs of the future.
