The intervention teacher who is also a school mom along with another mom had decided to start up a STEM (Science, technology, engineering and math) group this year and invited 10-12 third graders to join.  Connor was invited and their first meeting was last Sunday.  Each meeting will be 2 hours long.  Connor initially was excited when we received the invite, but on the day of the meeting, he was not too thrilled to have to leave us for 2 hours.  When we arrived at the organizer’s house, there were tables and chairs set up in the garage, and Connor could finally find out who were the other kids invited.  Connor then quickly went off to the backyard to play with them before the meeting began. 

    When I returned close to the end for pick up, 3 parents and 10 kids were still busy working on their projects  They were creating holding devices with any of the provided materials to carry a raw egg.  The objective was to protect the egg from breaking upon being dropped.  Connor was very serious while building a cardboard box from scratch; he said hi to me and handed a bite of his snack.  Shortly after, everyone finished making their designs and waited for their turns to have it drop by a parent standing on a ladder.  Many kids were happy to find their eggs intact and Connor was one of them.  All the parents quickly helped clean up the tables and materials before we left to go home.  Connor was thrilled to tell me what he had made and how much fun he had, and he could not wait for the next monthly meeting.