PMSD celebrates winning the NSBA 2025 Magna Silver Award for the district’s STEAM Integration Program and efforts. Sharing in the excitement are (front row, l to r) East Junior High School STEAM Club members Nicholas Scicatella (7th Grade); Kalista White (8th Grade); Raydyn Foreit (8th Grade); (back row, l to r) Ms. Citera, STEAM Teacher at East Junior HS; Ms. Catalano, Director of Curriculum & Instruction for Mathematics & Science; Dr. Robison, Superintendent of Schools; Ms. Buffington, Director of Curriculum & Instruction for Social Studies & Humanities; Josue Perla (7th Grade); Ms. Baldauff, Business Education Teacher at East High School; and Chase Farmer (8th Grade).

Dear PMSD Community,

I am so excited to announce that Pocono Mountain School District has been selected as a National School Boards Association (NSBA) 2025 Magna Awards silver winner (5,000 to 20,000 enrollment category) for our district-wide STEAM Integration Program and efforts. The NSBA signature awards program recognizes exemplary school district programs. The focus for the 2025 awards was on innovation in education, creativity, and out-of-the-box strategies to solve educational challenges.

Our award nomination included our journey in integrating STEAM throughout curricular areas and across the district over several years, and harnessing the power of technology to better meet the needs of our students. Some STEAM initiatives we are very proud of include the Art STEAM-Maker Technology group, the Outbreak-Alert program in partnership with Sanofi and in collaboration with the DaVinci Science Center, STEAM kits for families, dedicated STEAM courses, Code Joy, the Filament Innovations partnership that brought their 3D expertise into our classrooms through zoom classes, the STEM summit for K to 12 teachers, What’s So Cool About Manufacturing, Spring Into Happiness, Makey Kits of invention materials, Magic School and Merlyn Mind for AI. PMSD will be featured in the April issue of the American School Board Journal.

Thank you to all of our teachers, students, instructional directors and the technology department, who believe in the power of STEAM and who have worked so hard to integrate STEAM opportunities into our K to 12 educational programming for students of all abilities. This award is for all of them.

Please enjoy this video (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1moLaHsjzsmTIe2lURTEz1HGqhrkMh6dX/view?usp=drive_web) that Ms. Buffington and Ms. Baldauff produced and submitted to NSBA as part of PMSD's award nomination packet. The video includes AI produced scenic images of the Poconos and AI produced background music complete with lyrics.

Way to go PMSD!
I am so PMSD Proud!

Dr. Robison