A session on STE+AM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art + Architecture and Math) will be held at Conner Junior High School and McGehee High School at McGehee from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, Oct. 5-7.
As part of World Architecture Day, the event is sponsored by the Alex Foundation in partnership with Drury University Hammons School of Architecture professors Nancy Chikaraishi and Marshall Arne.
Chikaraishi, whose parents were interned between 1942 and 1945 in Desha County at the Rohwer Internment Camp, will co-teach STE+AM with Arne, according to a news release.
McGehee School District is one of five Alex Foundation sponsored STE+AM school districts in Arkansas. Offered to 8th and 9th graders, the primary objective of the initiative is to introduce students to key ways science, technology, engineering, art and math are incorporated into an architectural career.
The Alex Foundation is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization mission is to engage, engender and enlighten students to pursue careers and entrepreneurial opportunities in architecture and design.