STEAM Night set for next week at Rio Rancho Elementary

Rio Rancho Elementary School is holding a STEAM Night on Jan. 19.

There will be food trucks from 5:30-7 p.m. and science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics activities from 6-7:30 p.m.

Jan. 19 is also Spirit Day at RRES. Students are also encouraged to wear a costume to school to celebrate STEAM Night.

STEAM activities

Main building

• Explora and Sandia National Labs will will have fun hands-on science experiments for families in the gym.
• Science Girl’s Lab will have two shows in the library at 6:15 and 6:50 p.m.
• Eureka math games
• LEGO Snowflake Symmetry
• Straw Blowing Symmetry
• How Emotions Affect our Bodies

Annex building

• Air Force Research Labs will teach students about static electricity.
• Intel (snap circuits, robot badges, pipe fitting).
• Augmented Reality: Arctic animals.
• Engineering towers and bridges.
• Glass Bead Snowflake Symmetry.
• Coding
• Aeronautics: gliders.

Food trucks

• Simply Delicious Food
• Tacos El Muchacho Algre
• Chalkboard Eats
• Ordinarily Beautiful Cotton Candy
• Crazy Bomb Cups/Aguas Frescas

Spirit Day costume ideas

• Paint
• Architect
• Famous paintings
• Mad scientist
• Pilot
• Veterinarian
• Math problem
• Meteorologist