Introducing the STEAM Club
The STEAM Club offers engaging learning opportunities in STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math for PYLUSD students!
The bedrock of our activities is centered on 21st-Century learning and life skills with a focus on the Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communications.
The Academic Team's Mission is to provide hands-on, engaging enrichment programs that inspire students to become confident and creative innovators and collaborators at home and at school.
We offer meaningful educational experiences, promoting STEAM, supplementing teachers, state curriculum and turning knowledge into impactful action. Through our vast array of community partners, student interns, and parent experts/volunteers, our students gain technical, engineering, and communication skills, investigating real-world problems in a supportive environment.
Learn more about our programs below.
Fun Fact: Our STEAM logo is designed by a PYLUSD Alum!
STEAM Programs: Connect, Collaborate & Compete!
Communicating with Confidence (CWC) Learning Labs at Golden!
First Lego League (FLL) Robotics: Pre-season Competition, available to Travis Ranch, Fairmont, and Woodsboro Students!
Communicating with Confidence (CWC) Learning Labs at Golden!
Connect by learning, doing, and leading at the CWC Learning Labs where students' confidence grow through the development of communications and leadership skills in an active learning and safe environment.
Experimental Design at Ruby Drive!
First Lego League (FLL) Robotics: Pre-season Competition, available to Travis Ranch, Fairmont, and Woodsboro Students!
Communicating with Confidence (CWC) Learning Labs at Golden!
Collaborate the VHS Girls Up Club to investigate STEM topics through experimental design using everyday materials. Experiments will cover basic physics and chemistry, exposing the girls to STEM and inspiring them to pursue science.
First Lego League (FLL) Robotics: Pre-season Competition, available to Travis Ranch, Fairmont, and Woodsboro Students!
First Lego League (FLL) Robotics: Pre-season Competition, available to Travis Ranch, Fairmont, and Woodsboro Students!
First Lego League (FLL) Robotics: Pre-season Competition, available to Travis Ranch, Fairmont, and Woodsboro Students!
Compete in a friendly challenge, engage in research, problem-solving, coding, and engineering -- building and programming a LEGO robot that navigates the missions in a robot game.
find out more about competition
Good News Report from PYLUSD
Check out two headline articles about our program:
- Travis Ranch robotics team advances to regional competition and earns award following qualifier competition: http://goodnews.pylusd.org/?p=22776
- Travis Ranch robotics team finishes their season strong at regional competition: http://goodnews.pylusd.org/?p=22949
Experimental Design Pilot by VHS Girl Up Club
Ruby Drive Elementary
With a goal to give young girls in our community opportunities to investigate STEM through weekly experimental designs using everyday materials. Experiments will cover basic physics and chemistry, exposing the girls to STEM and inspiring them to pursue science. We hope to also build relationships between the volunteers (high school girls pursuing STEM) as role models and mentors for the younger elementary school students. This program provides the basis for future STEM studies, develop more inquisitive mindset, gain skills in the "lab" setting, and build teamwork while working on the experiment.
Meeting: 1 day/week
Time: 1 hour
Length: 8 weeks
Class Size: 20 students max
Grades: 4 -6
From the inside 11-16-22
College Applications Decoded
THINK SMART. DON"T STRESS
Are you thinking about college applications?
Wondering how to prepare?
Is picking a major making your head spin?
Are you curious about what you can do today to prepare for tomorrow?
Deanna Kingsbury - Keynote Speaker
Dee Dee Kingsbury is an Academics Counselor at CSUF in the Athletics Department. She will be giving a birds eye view of the college application process, athletics and scholarships and more.
PYLUSD Alumni
Hemant Kadiama, Med School Student at Brown University
PYLUSD Alumni
Lauren Nguyen, Human Physiology, Sport Science, Product Testing Analyst at Nike
More info on our STEAM Programs
From the Inside Speaker Series
First Lego League Robotics Team - Travis Trailblazers
From the Inside Speaker Series
Have you ever wondered what careers might interest you? Are you curious about what you can do today to prepare for tomorrow? PYL Alumni will share their experiences, insights and challenges from high school, college and careers to inspire PYL students & upcoming graduates. From the Inside - College Applications decoded is Wednesday 11-16-22 at 7:00pm PST - a Virtual Event on Zoom .
First Lego League
First Lego League Robotics Team - Travis Trailblazers
From the Inside Speaker Series
The foundation is sponsoring one of our first Intern-led programs called the First Lego League, a robotics program that allows students to explore STEM in a hands-on manner, integrating a robot game, research project, and core values. This program is led by the STEM IT UP Club at Yorba Linda High School with coaching and mentorship from Gisele T. Nguyen, REACH Foundation VP Academics, Mr. Eddie Tabata, Administrator, Mrs. Nayana Gupta, Parent Coach, and Mr. Greg Walls, Yorba Linda High School STEM IT UP Club Advisor.
First Lego League Robotics Team - Travis Trailblazers
First Lego League Robotics Team - Travis Trailblazers
First Lego League Robotics Team - Travis Trailblazers
Congratulations to our team Travis Trailblazers for being one of the few rookie teams to advance to the regional competition! Out of over 400 teams in the SoCal region, only 200 of the teams advanced. The Travis Trailblazers score of 215 points was among the top 25% of all teams in the region and our team left with the All Star Rising Award which is given to the most promising team at the qualifier competition. A shout out to the Yorba Linda High School students in the STEM IT UP club, that mentored and prepared the team from spring 2022 to compete this fall. The students had an excellent performance and we expect great things from them in the future! We are excited to compete at the regional competition on December 4th.
Coding for All!
Communicating with Confidence Learning Labs
First Lego League Robotics Team - Travis Trailblazers
Learn to Code & Change the world! Coding classes through thecoderschool of Yorba Linda for ages 7+ are back in person featuring small group learning experiences in Game Development and Web Design Development, using Python, SCRATCH, and HTML. Watch for more information for Winter and Spring classes.
Communicating with Confidence Learning Labs
Communicating with Confidence Learning Labs
Communicating with Confidence Learning Labs
Communicating with Confidence is an exciting, student-led, technology-assisted program designed to engage and prepare students to communicate with confidence. In the Labs at Fairmont, Woodsboro & Mabel Paine Elementary this year, students have demonstrated improvements in communicating, taking initiative, and leading with confidence. Ask your principal about bring the Learning Labs to your school.
Internship Opportunities
Communicating with Confidence Learning Labs
Communicating with Confidence Learning Labs
REACH Foundation offers Internships to select students who want to make an impact in their community. This a hands-on, work experience opportunity for PYL students. High School and Middle School students can apply for an annual internship, gain volunteer hours and build their resume with the REACH Foundation, just like a real job. Students can work within an existing REACH Foundation program or present a proposal for a program they would like to lead.