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Session 17: Year Exhibition 🎓

Overview

Grades: 5-6 | Duration: 45 minutes | Session: 17 of 17

Students present their portfolios and inventions, celebrating growth and achievement throughout the year.

Session 17: Year Exhibition

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session, students will:

  • Present portfolio of year's work

  • Demonstrate inventions and projects

  • Reflect on growth and learning

  • Celebrate achievements and set future goals

Session 17: Year Exhibition

Materials Needed

  • 📓 Engineering journals (full year)

  • 🖼️ Projects and inventions

  • 📸 Photos from sessions

  • 🏆 Certificates/awards

  • 🎈 Celebration supplies

Catholic Integration

Saint Connection

All Year's Saints — St. Hildegard, Blessed Carlo Acutis, Cathedral Builders, Psalm 139, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Katharine Drexel, St. Lucy, Pope Francis, St. Paul, and more!

Scripture

"Well done, good and faithful servant!" — Matthew 25:21

Opening Prayer

Dear God, thank you for an incredible year of learning and creating. Thank you for each student and their unique gifts. Bless these young engineers as they continue to grow. Amen.

Lesson Procedure

Opening Circle (6 minutes)

  1. Celebration Time!
  2. "17 sessions of amazing work!"
  3. Review highlights with photos
  4. Year Journey:
  5. Design thinking mastery
  6. Advanced programming
  7. Engineering excellence
  8. Faith integration throughout
  9. Saints We Met:
  10. Quick review of saint connections
  11. "Their faith inspired our innovation!"

Main Activity: Exhibition (31 minutes)

Part 1: Portfolio Preparation (8 minutes)

  • Review engineering journals

  • Select highlights:

  • Best project
  • Greatest growth moment
  • Proudest achievement
  • Most challenging success

  • Faith-STREAM connection

  • Prepare exhibition display

Part 2: Exhibition Gallery (15 minutes)

  • Set up displays

  • Students circulate to view all work

  • Presenters explain:

  • What they created
  • Skills demonstrated
  • What they learned

  • Faith connections

  • Visitors ask questions and appreciate

Part 3: Invention Presentations (5 minutes)

  • Highlight Session 16 inventions

  • 1-minute pitches

  • Celebrate creativity!

Part 4: Awards & Recognition (3 minutes)

  • Certificates for all:
  • "Master Engineer"
  • "Code Architect"
  • "Science Explorer"
  • "Faithful Innovator"
  • "Design Thinker"
  • "Perseverance Champion"

  • Custom recognitions

  • Each student recognized for unique strengths!

Engineering Journal (5 minutes)

Final Entry: 1. "This year I became..." 2. "My proudest achievement..." 3. "Faith and STREAM connect because..." 4. "Next year I want to..." 5. "I will use my gifts to..."

Closing Circle (3 minutes)

  1. Gratitude — Each person shares thanks
  2. Future Vision — "What will you create next?"
  3. Final Blessing:

Dear God, Thank you for this year of discovery and growth. Thank you for brilliant minds and creative hearts. Thank you for showing us that faith and science work together. Bless these young engineers and scientists. May they use their gifts to serve you and others. May they never stop learning, questioning, and creating. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

🎓 CONGRATULATIONS, GRADUATES! 🎓

Assessment

Year-End Evaluation:

  • Presented portfolio effectively

  • Demonstrated significant growth

  • Articulated faith-STREAM connection

  • Shows enthusiasm for continued learning

Year A Accomplishments

Skills Mastered:

  • ✅ Advanced design thinking

  • ✅ Sphero BOLT programming

  • ✅ Structural engineering

  • ✅ Human body systems

  • ✅ Advanced Scratch

  • ✅ MIT App Inventor

  • ✅ Little Bits electronics

  • ✅ Environmental science

  • ✅ Newton's Laws

  • ✅ Original invention

Saints & Faith Connections: St. Hildegard • Bl. Carlo Acutis • Cathedral Builders • Psalm 139 • St. Thomas Aquinas • St. Katharine Drexel • St. Lucy • Pope Francis • St. Paul • Natural Law

Portfolio Includes:

  • Design thinking projects

  • Programming projects

  • Engineering builds

  • Science investigations

  • Service projects

  • Original invention

  • Faith reflections

Wonder at Home 🏠

Summer C-STREAM Challenge:

  • 🔧 Continue inventing

  • 💻 Advance coding skills

  • 🔬 Pursue science interests

  • 📚 Read about great inventors

  • 🛠️ Take things apart to learn

  • ❤️ Use skills to serve others

  • ✝️ See God in science and innovation

You are engineers, scientists, programmers, innovators, and children of God!

The world needs what you will create.

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End of Grades 5-6 Year A Bi-Weekly C-STREAM Curriculum