Students at St. Anne French Immersion Catholic Elementary School in Walkerville have a better understanding of technology.
For the seventh year they were part of a Science Technology Engineering and Math or STEM Expo.
Principal Michael Cusinato says the Society of Automotive Engineers and the GM Foundation help out.
"They provide us free of charge with STEM kits geared toward each age level of learning so that every student is taking part in some STEM related activity and it goes beyond STEM in the sense that they have to practice their soft skills like organization."
St. Anne French Immersion Catholic Elementary School Principal Michael Cusinato, May 7, 2019 (by AM800's Peter Langille)
Grade 7 student Anthony Hoang says he learned a lot in building a gravity powered machine.
"How small charges can affect everything that the gravity cruiser can do and how working together as a team and having that mindset that you can do it is also the most important thing."
Fellow Grade 7 student Sean Sampang says it helped him learn about the science involved.
"I think it did because I learned things that I did not before for example kinetic energy and potential energy and how to calculate speed."
The projects involved students from all grade levels.
Among the other projects were a glider enhanced by virtual reality and a hydrogen fuel cell used to propel a small car with water.
This year officials from the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board and several secondary schools came to see the Expo.
Students at St. Anne French Immersion school learn a lot in STEM Expo. #cklw @AM800News pic.twitter.com/KyQlGCLjwK
— Peter Langille (@PLangille800) May 7, 2019