Prince William County Public Schools
Community and Business Partnerships in Action
The Community Outreach, Business Partnerships, and Philanthropy Department supports our schools and educators by partnering with businesses and community-based organizations to identify and invest in new and effective initiatives. To see what some of these partnerships look like in action, take a look at some of the videos below!
This museum-schools partnership pilot program between SPARK and the Northern Virginia Science Center Foundation is sponsored by AWS InCommunities.
The program brings fourth graders from PWCS elementary schools without a designated science lab to the "Think Big" Space at River Oaks Elementary School, and fifth graders to the Children’s Science Center Lab located in Fairfax. Students in both grade levels get the chance to experience modules designed by the Science Center's SOL based Science Enrichment Program.
Collaboration between Prince William County Public Schools, SPARK, and AWS resulted in the first "Think Big" Space in the country in 2019. The lab, designed to promote career awareness, engineering design, coding, and gamification, is named after one of Amazon's leadership principles.
The space, created to mirror an actual Amazon working environment, provides access to 3D printers, drones, and Kindles with augmented reality.
The lab is located at River Oaks Elementary School, and is available for field trips for other PWCS elementary schools.
The Qualcomm Thinkabit Lab located at Cedar Point Elementary School is known as the Tech Lab.
On alternating weeks, kindergarten through fifth grade students from Cedar Point Elementary School visit for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) activities, challenges and project-based learning. Students collaborate to code, build with circuits and innovate. When they tinker, play, make mistakes, and create in the Tech Lab, students stretch their minds and build confidence.
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