The Riverhead Board of Education hired a new director of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) Tuesday night, who will help integrate a MakerSpace program within the district.
Jeannine Campbell, who is currently the assistant principal of the middle school, was hired as the district’s director of STEM at an annual salary of $151,077. MakerSpaces are communal lab spaces that enable a wide range of STEM and construction related activities, including 3-D printing, coding and robotics, according to Makerspaces.com.
Tornatore said in an interview last month that he envisions a makerspace in every building. The program would introduce the building blocks of coding, and construction and design of basic manipulatives, like Legos, in elementary schools and then students would transition into bigger projects as they enter secondary schools using tools like…
