March 10, 2023 – Use the link below to view the video message released today by CUSD 10 Superintendent Dr. Mark B. Skertich. In this video, Dr. Skertich is joined by sixth grade STEM students from Dorris Intermediate School talking about the STEM program, and by members of the Collinsville High School Student Advisory Board […]
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CHS Senior Sam Stuckey Earns Fifth in National Crystal Competition
March 2023 – Collinsville High School STEM club member senior Sam Stuckey earned 5th place in the 2022-23 U.S. National Crystal Growing Competition. “Students are given 30 days from late October to late November to grow their crystal. They start with growing seed crystals and then picking the best ones to grow their main crystal,” […]
CHS Seniors Earn Recognition in 2023 Conrad Challenge
February 2023 – Collinsville High School seniors Jenna Feldmann, Peyton Beeles and Brandon Nygard have been named Conrad Innovators in the 2023 international Conrad Challenge. The challenge asks students to establish themselves as entrepreneurs who design an innovation to solve an important problem. Over the course of a year, the teammates go step-by-step through the entrepreneurial […]
DIS’ Jason Watts Receives 2022 Emerson Teaching Award
November 21, 2022 – Dorris Intermediate School STEM Teacher Jason Watts has been named a 2022 Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award recipient. He is among more than 80 teachers from across the St. Louis metropolitan area recognized this year as an example of “truly outstanding educational excellence.” The Emerson Excellence in Teaching Awards, now in […]
DIS STEM Challenge Starts 22-23 with Aerodynamics
September 1, 2022 – Dorris Intermediate School’s first quarter 2022-23 STEM Challenge is “Top Gun – Take to the Sky Challenge.” The first session (September 1) showed students how to fold & fly world record setting paper airplanes. Other first quarter sessions include how to make candle powered hot air balloons and toy army parachutes, […]