Joyce Ratliff

Teaching, inspiring, and building up the future leaders in STEM

[Joyce Ratliff @STEMsational_SA]

ISTE Conference and Expo! Can’t wait to implement new, innovative ideas into our Hoffmann STEM lab! @NISDAcadTech @NISDHoffmann @NISDSTEMLabs @Sphero @3Doodler

[Joyce Ratliff @STEMsational_SA]

Wow! What an exciting STEAM night for @NISDHoffmann staff, students, and families! A science fair, robotic art, flight testing, indi, and so much more. Thanks to @nisdgrants for funding @Sphero robotics in classrooms and community events like this! @NISDSTEMLabs

[Joyce Ratliff @STEMsational_SA]

@TechCoachNina visited our @NISDHoffmann STEM lab today to share in some competitive coding using @SpheroEdu BOLTS!
@NISDSTEMLabs @nisdnef

[Joyce Ratliff @STEMsational_SA]

It was a “build a spider trap” and “Creepy Crayon boat testing” kind of day in the @NISDHoffmann STEM lab yesterday! @NISDSTEMLabs

[Joyce Ratliff @STEMsational_SA]

@NISDHoffmann Admin making our Friday that much sweeter!

[Joyce Ratliff @STEMsational_SA]

Today my daughter and I helped build a giant Grogu for the grand opening of the 1000th Lego Store! What a cool experience.

[Joyce Ratliff @STEMsational_SA]

Learning so many new skills in @tinkercad thanks to Northside academic tech dept! #NISDEngage
@melinda_valdez1 @rosemarylara96 @NISDSTEMLabs

[Joyce Ratliff @STEMsational_SA]

Fun in SPI! #SPIturtletrail

[Joyce Ratliff @STEMsational_SA]

Lots of aha moments this weekend @stem_con! @NISDSTEMLabs @brookebrownTOTB

[Joyce Ratliff @STEMsational_SA]

Oldies are playing @makeymakey games and tunes while the littles are doing robotics sight word challenges to meet school-wide reading goals! I ❤️ my job! @NISDSTEMLabs @NISDHoffmann

[Joyce Ratliff @STEMsational_SA]

@NISDHoffmann STEAM Night last week was a huge success! Planetarium, straw rockets, shooting stars, Sphero space races and so much more! Thanks to @NISDJonesSTEM and @NISDZachryCyber for sharing your love of STEM with the students and families. @NISDSTEMLabs

[Joyce Ratliff @STEMsational_SA]

@NISDJonesSTEM So very proud of these @NISDHoffmann hawks!

[Joyce Ratliff @STEMsational_SA]

@TrevinoSTEM @teachstemquick @NISDSTEMLabs Awesome! It’s such a good powerful, yet quick way to reflect. Have fun, @TrevinoSTEM!

[Joyce Ratliff @STEMsational_SA]

Last week we finished up manufacturing and electrical engineering with 3D printing and LED art from @chibitronics! @NISDHoffmann engineers enjoyed working through the design process! @NISDSTEMLabs

[Joyce Ratliff @STEMsational_SA]

Our little Hawks spent this rotation with their friend, Awbie from @PlayOsmo, coding him through a forest and cave! What a great hands-on way to practice coding skills for our youngest learners. ❤️

[Joyce Ratliff @STEMsational_SA]

5th grade electrical engineers @NISDHoffmann have been lighting up the STEM lab with LED Lego and play dough structures and making their own music with @littleBits synthesizer kits!

[Joyce Ratliff @STEMsational_SA]

@jillbee7 @ChatterPixIt @LEGO_Group @WonderWorkshop @NISDHoffmann @NISDLosReyes @NISDSTEMLabs I loved our planning time together!

[Joyce Ratliff @STEMsational_SA]

This week in the @NISDHoffmann STEM lab 5th graders explored Lego Spike Prime, investigating different robotic leg designs and how they function while racing their robots with friends!

[Joyce Ratliff @STEMsational_SA]

#nisdvotes #TxEdVotes #TxED @NISDHoffmann @Katmclem Making my voice heard!

[Joyce Ratliff @STEMsational_SA]

This week in the Hoffmann STEM lab, 4th graders have been building different types of beams and testing their strength! This was a great lesson in quality construction and how beams vary depending on their structure. @PaxPatLearning @NISDSTEMLabs @NISDHoffmann