Second-graders Airibella Shindledecker and Elyn Schrecongost weigh down an aluminum foil boat with pennies at Chicora Elementary School on Tuesday. The students tested the vessels they made as part of Remake Learning Days, a statewide STEAM event. Joseph Ressler/Butler Eagle 5/10/22

CHICORA — Second-grade students at Chicora Elementary School joined classrooms statewide in designing, building and testing floats as part of a STEAM initiative Tuesday.

Chicora students collaborated with a class at Kerr Elementary in Fox Chapel to discuss and demonstrate their boats and measure their buoyancy.

Alison Perry, second-grade teacher at Chicora, said this is her second time participating in Remake Learning Days, a statewide STEAM event that provides hands-on learning events.

“This is our second day of the activity. The first day we did an icebreaker activity with the (Fox Chapel) class over Zoom,” she said. “That class provided the tubs to sink the boats, foil to build the boats, and all we had to do was provide the pennies.”

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