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How It Works:

• Students are challenged to evaluate real-world problems and potential solutions through the engineering Design Process, inquiry, and problem-based and project-based learning (PBL).
• Additionally, Oakdale uses a wide variety of hands-on materials in teaching STEAM, such as Full Option Science System (FOSS), Engineering is Elementary (EIE), and Discovery Education.
• All students attend their weekly STEAM-related arts class in our STEAM Makerspace. They engage in completing design challenges and connecting what they are learning in their classes to the real world.
• All students, 4K-5th grade, participate in our Annual STEAM Fair. Projects in 4K – 2 are typically whole class, and grades 3-5 transition to individual projects for competition. All students participate in our Annual Related Arts Showcase, which highlights STEAM. A variety of clubs are available to students, such as Girls Who Code and Robotics. Students in grades 3-5 participate in local and state STEAM-related competitions.

Program Location:
Oakdale STEAM Elementary School
1129 Oakdale Road, Rock Hill, SC 29730

School Website

Contact for Program Specific Questions:
Jacob Moree

Program for students with gifts/interests in:

Our STEAM program is geared towards students who have a curiosity about how the world around them works.   They are risk-takers who grow to understand that when an idea does not work, or FAILs, that it is simply our “First Attempt In Learning. “ Students often have a keen interest in for science, technology, engineering and math, and are drawn towards hands on learning.

Benefits/Goals of the Program:
STEAM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics.  Oakdale STEAM Elementary School focuses on these subjects to help ensure our children and youth gain the skills required to succeed in today's challenging world. Our school vision statement is “Preparing ALL Students for a Successful Future.”  Thus, our STEAM program is fueled by America's high demand for educated and highly-skilled workers in order to keep our nation's most innovative companies here in the U.S. Our STEAM curriculum offers integration across subjects and in related arts, ensuring our students receive a solid foundation. Students think critically, solve problems, hypothesize, research, experiment, draw conclusions, apply their knowledge in each subject, and demonstrate effective communication.  Oakdale’s classrooms use real world applications to blend the three R’s (reading, writing, and arithmetic) and the four C’s (communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity).  Oakdale students are prepared to for the demands of the middle school and high school STEAM programs.

Program Specific Course Offerings/Instructional Models:

Students are challenged to evaluate real-world problems and potential solutions through the engineering Design Process, inquiry, and problem-based and project-based learning (PBL).   Additionally, Oakdale uses a wide variety of hands-on materials in teaching STEAM, such as Full Option Science System (FOSS), Engineering is Elementary (EIE), and Discovery Education.  Additionally, all students attend their weekly STEAM related arts class in our STEAM Makerspace. They engage in completing design challenges and connecting what they are learning in their classes to the real world. 

All students, 4K-5th grade, participate in our Annual STEAM Fair.  Projects in 4K – 2 are typically whole class, and grades 3-5 transition to individual projects for competition.  All students participate in our Annual Relate Arts Showcase, which highlights STEAM.  A variety of clubs are available to students, such as Girls Who Code and Robotics.  Students in grades 3-5 participate in local and state STEAM-related competitions.