Red Wings host Virtual STEM Days for Detroit students

DETROIT -- Although the Detroit Red Wings' season has concluded, the organization's community impact initiatives across the City of Detroit are still in full swing as the Red Wings are set to host a series of exciting Virtual STEM Days starting Monday, May 17. Virtual STEM Days are driven by Chevrolet.

In lieu of the annual in-person STEM Day at Little Caesars Arena, the Red Wings are bringing STEM education (Science, Technology, Education and Math) into the homes of hundreds of Detroit Public Schools Community District students by delivering Red Wings-themed STEM Kits--filled with several items that bring STEM concepts to life using hockey-related materials--to three local schools for students to take home and complete at their own pace.
The DPSCD schools receiving the kits are Clippert Multicultural Magnet Honors Academy, Bethune Elementary-Middle School and Ronald Brown Academy.
The kits include a STEM-branded tray for a "make-a-rink" lab where students freeze water and use a quarter to rough up the ice to see how friction effects puck movement. The kits also include three pucks and a STEM-themed ruler for a "frozen pucks lab" where students determine puck bounce height depending on puck temperature (frozen, room temperature and warm).

And to complete the kits, students receive a STEM-branded stopwatch for the final lab to help explain how vital signs and heart rate are affected by exercise.
"With youth education as one of the Red Wings' community impact pillars, we are constantly striving to unlock the connection between what a child learns in the classroom and the game of hockey," said Red Wings & Tigers director of community impact Kevin Brown. "Through our unique collaboration with Chevrolet, the Virtual STEM Day program brings hockey-based educational concepts to life in a new, interactive way for hundreds of students at home."
In addition to the STEM Kits, students will also receive a Virtual STEM Day T-shirt and an extensive workbook to track their different hockey-themed experiments.
The Wings also created a Virtual STEM Day video, hosted by Red Wings TV's Carley Johnston, which includes segments from Red Wings defenseman Alex Biega, fan-favorite Little Caesars Arena operations manager Al Sobotka and others to help incorporate STEM concepts through hockey principles.
"STEM finds itself in so many aspects of Red Wings hockey every day," Brown said. "Whether Alex Biega is testing certain angles for the perfect pass up the ice, or Al Sobotka is maintaining Little Caesars Arena's ice surface at just the right temperature, it's inspiring to see students explore all of the amazing ways science, technology, engineering and math interact with the world around us."
Virtual STEM Days run from Monday, May 17 - Friday, May 21. For more information on how you can incorporate STEM concepts and hockey knowledge into your student's curriculum,
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