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E-skateboards: Learning STEM in hands-on ways Community residents will have an opportunity to use Lectec products hands-on, durThe electric skateboard has ing an E-SkateBoard Middle emerged as one the newest School STEM camp at Samanea hands-on STEM education tools Mall in Westbury on Aug. 17. in Nassau County, according to Those who attend will participate in an instrucEast Meadow resitional class and get dent Daniel Tellertheir own Lectec man. skateboard kit to Tellerman is the keep. To register director of growth and lear n more, for Lectec, which is visit Camp.Lectec. based in New York link. C i t y, a g r ow i n g More students small business are being intromade for the do-itduced to hands-on yourself tinkerer, activities involving aspiring engineer STEM, which and skateboard stands for science, hobbyist. Lectec’s technolog y, engipartnerships have neering and math. p l a c e d e l e c t r i c ToM GIRolAMo Using e-skates k a t e b o a r d s i n Manager, boards as an educaM i n e o l a H i g h Snapology t i o n t o o l m a ke s School, and in education more fun schools in Pennsyland memorable than learning vania, Georgia and California. “We are incredibly dedicated the same topics in a convento this vision that came out of a tional classroom, Tellerman dusty old warehouse to change said. “I can’t think of any child education and provide students w i t h o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o b e that wakes up one day and says engaged that they wouldn’t they want to learn all about have anywhere else, and we mechanical engineering,” Tellbelieve that skateboards are the erman said. “But if you attrianswer to that,” Teller man bute it to an activity, a passion, said. Continued on page 27
By JoSEPH D’AlESSANDRo
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Teeing off for a good cause The Kiwanis Club of East Meadow held its annual Steven J. Eisman Memorial Golf Outing at Eisenhower Park on August 5. The event, which honors the late Steven Eisman, a dedicated community leader and former Kiwanis president, raises nearly $25,000 each year. Proceeds support scholarships and send underprivileged children to Kamp Kiwanis. Eisman is remembered for his leadership roles in the East Meadow Chamber of Commerce and the Nassau County Bar Association. Above, Tom Murtagh and Keith Burtis celebrated a good play. Right, Leslie Kle lined up her shot down the fairway. Story, more photos, Page 8.
verybody should have at least some sort of hands-on experience with technology.