2025-03-18T12:28:42-07:00 2024-12-31 990EZ 2024-01-01 844005211 STEM FOR FLATHEAD VALLEY SCHOOLS INCORPORATED STEM 4062502790 175 Hutton Ranch STE103 Kalispell MT 59901 Christopher Washer Treasurer 4062502790 2025-03-07 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X flatheadstem.org X X 19259 X 19259 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19259 0 0 0 1500 0 101 17074 18675 584 10661 0 11245 10661 11245 0 0 0 0 10661 11245 0 0 10661 11245 To bring STEM to Montana Flathead Valley Schools by giving students the tools to become innovative in science, technology, engineering and math. We support 11 schools districts with a physics of flight and engineering aerospace principals for aircraft and rockets. Over 650 students take part in this program where we supply all the materials required for the construction of large water bottle rockets that are tested and improved according to the engineering process. The culmination of their work is a competition between all of the schools at the Flathead Valley Rocket Rally which is an event organized by this non-profit. The schools compete for 1st - 3rd place medals in 5 categories of performance and design. Since we have a significant number or fiscally challenged rural schools with fiscally challenged students, we provide bus transportation and lunch to all participating students at the rally. 6036 6036 One of our key programs is our STEM Resource Library available to all the schools we support. The library has resources for teacher education as well as classroom lab materials they can us to give the students hands-on lab experience in applying and/or proving the concepts they have learned during classroom lectures. The teachers can schedule checking out the materials according to their curriculum. The resources are available to grades 1 - 12 teachers. We also provide assistance to the teacher in giving class lectures on the material while also educating the teacher so they can do it themselves in subsequent classes. This resource has been well received and we are continuing to expand it accordingly to include more subjects as well as a greater number of lab materials to handle multiple school simultaneous use. The library also has lots of science demonstration equipment that is used to demonstrate important elements of physics and chemistry to classes grades 1 - 12. Physics topics covered in the demonstrations include thermodynamics, states of matter, cryogenics, electricity & magnetism, electrostatics, lightning, forces of motion, gravity, and light & sound waves. 7169 7169 We initiated a new Robotics program in 2024. This program seeks to train the students in the logical thought processes required for software computer coding and the control of robots. Students will learn general logic for providing instructions to a computer/robot. They will learn the capabilities of the Dash robot and learn how to program it to do basic maneuvers. Using math, measurements, and geometry they will learn how to have the robot perform more complex maneuvers. They will learn how to simplify more efficient programs to control the robots and to use or share program elements for other robot programs. There were 40 students from two schools participating as this effort started this year. We hope to get more schools and elementary grades engaged in subsequent years as we expand the program. 2855 2855 16060 Alison Godfrey President/Executive Director 16 0 0 0 Christopher Washer Board Member/Treasurer 1 0 0 0 Erica Wirtala Board Member 1 0 0 0 Tom Ritzdorf Board Member 1 0 0 0 Steven Alejandro Secretary 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MT Christopher Washer 175 Hutton Ranch STE103 Kalispell MT 59901 4062502790 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 4209 9849 8177 18185 19259 59679 4209 9849 8177 18185 19259 59679 59679 59679 0 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Other expenses included: Insurance, PO Box rental, demonstration equipment, general supplies, website and domain fees, Flathead Valley Rocket Rally expenses, Dash robots and support equipment, two solar telescopes, electricity and magnetism lab kits, science consumables, text books Total =17,074