When growing up, David Burden said he “had a small scope of what I thought I could pursue as a career.” Public education in the 1990s had a different look to it.

Press Release WARSAW — Warsaw Community Schools recently announced that all WCS elementary schools and both middle schools have been recognized as Project Lead The Way Distinguished Schools for providing broad access to transformative learning opportunities for students through PLTW. PLTW is a nonprofit organization that serves millions of preK-12 students and teachers in schools …read more.

WARSAW — Students at Washington STEM Academy have been recognized in recent years for their robotics savvy and Tuesday night, March 12 was no exception. However, there appears to be more to a STEM education than just maneuvering LEGOs with remote controls. While the academy was once again the beneficiary of a grant from a …read more.

WARSAW — Warsaw Community Schools has awarded much-needed funding to help with the continuing education of four of its own. At the regular meeting of the WCS board of trustees Monday night, Nov. 19, the board congratulated Joshua Wall, David Burden, April Fitterling and Brad Gutwein as recipients of the scholarship designed to help WCS …read more.

WARSAW — Youngsters at Washington STEM Academy were given a challenge — figure out what to do with all this trash that humans accumulate. For more than 100 students in the school’s first, second and third grades, the problem involved using Legos and robotics to engage in the ultimate garbage recycling program. “The big idea …read more.

WARSAW — It’s a phrase being used much more commonly in local schools and, likely, will continue to become even more common. Project based learning, or PBL, is taking root as learning is being geared toward developing employability skills in the 21st century. PBL involves the elements of a driving question, in-depth inquiry, a public …read more.

WARSAW — The Warsaw Education Foundation recently awarded more than $6,500 in Red Apple Grant funds to five Warsaw Community Schools teachers. Their students are beginning the 2016-2017 school year engaged in creating and experimenting in the arts and sciences, programming robots, studying local waterways, engineering design and modeling and creative writing. Red Apple Grants …read more.

WARSAW — The Lilly Endowment Teacher Creativity Fellowship Program recognizes innovative Indiana educators with grants to pursue projects that may bring global awareness to their teaching. Washington STEM Academy’s David Burden was recently one of 100 Indiana teachers awarded with this grant. Burden’s project “Hawaii: Let’s See What Develops” will include photography of Hawaii’s nature, …read more.