East Canton High School earns STEM designation

East Canton High School has been named Stark County’s first designated high school for science technology, engineering and math. The Ohio STEM Committee, comprised of the state superintendent, leaders from the state Department of Higher Education and Department of Development, business leaders and STEM experts, recently awarded the STEM designation to East Canton and 13 other schools from around Ohio.
The designation – given to only 1.6 percent of Ohio schools – recognizes a school’s design as an effective place for STEM learning and invites the school into the Ohio STEM Learning Network, a public-private partnership managed by Battelle. The Canton City School District’s STEAMM Academy at Hartford Middle School was named Stark County’s first STEM middle school last year. It also was the first of three schools in Ohio to earn the STEAM designation, which adds arts to the STEM skills. STEAMM’s extra M stands for medicine.