Cooper STEM Update!!
STEM Interest Survey
2025-26 School Year!
Calling all Cooper students! Any student interested in being a part of the Cooper STEM Academy, please fill out the interest survey below by April 14, 2025
Please be aware student must meet the Academy requirements to be accepted into the STEM Academy. Click below for information about the Academy and its requirements
Please be aware student must meet the Academy requirements to be accepted into the STEM Academy. Click below for information about the Academy and its requirements
Highlights
Future Cities Competition 2nd place STATE Winners
Advance to International Competition in Washington DC
Congratulations to team Nova Miami (Andrew M, Gavin C, Charlie L) for winning 2nd place in the State Future City Competition. This team advanced to the international competition and was about to competed against 42 teams from around the world in Washington DC in February 2025. Great job team!!
Welcome to the Cooper STEM Academy
The Cooper STEM Academy was established in 2013 to inspire, support and engage students in engineering through enhanced math and science experiences. In 2016 Cooper STEM Academy received Cobb County STEM certification. In 2017 the STEM Academy was awarded state STEM and AdvancED certification. The STEM Academy provided rigorous cross-disciplinary curriculum to all students through Academy classes and STEM Focused connections classes. The Academy exposes students to various engineering design projects and challenges during a specialized STEM enrichment block. All Cooper students have access to STEM enrichment within multiple connections classes such as pre-engineering, art, audio and visual programming, health sciences and performing arts.
STEM Teachers |
Partnerships |
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6th Grade
Monica Moore and (6/7 Math) Brittney Swann (Science) 7th Grade Crystal Mast (7/8 math) Geoffrey Gillie (science) 8th Grade Michelle Kennedy(H.S. Physical Science) Stephanie Ruffner (H.S. Algebra 1) Connections Mr. Cowan (Pre-Engineering) Ms. Cody (Audio and Visual Productions) STEM Director Contact Information |
Cobb Water
Colonial Pipeline Georgia Tech Georgia Power Sun Power CERM StarBase Produc'ed CertificationsCobb County Certified March 2016
State STEM Certified January 2017-2024 Cognia STEM Certified April 2017 |
"Too often we give children the answers to remember rather than problems to solve"
-- Roger Lewin
