At a recent Adel-DeSoto-Minburn School Board meeting they approved a STEM Fuse agreement that helps teach an ongoing class involving video games. 

Superintendent Greg Dufoe says the recent approval of the STEM Fuse agreement at the March 21st meeting deals with their primary resource the district uses to teach Video Game Design 1 and 2. Dufoe talks about available computer science programming at ADM. 

“There is a requirement for all Iowa schools to have a computer science program K-12 and that plan has to be submitted sometime this June. We are well in advance of that and have been building a computer science program for the last several years. At the high school level we have an introductory course on computer science principles and then once students take that course the next set of courses they can get into would be these video game design courses. We feel like those will be in high demand we hope over time.”

Dufoe tells Raccoon Valley Radio he hopes more students take these elective courses in the future as it becomes more popular. Dufoe says while this is the first year for these courses, they have been successful.

“This is the first year for our video game courses, so they are really new. I would characterize them as being very successful. We hope more students elect to take them.”

The STEM Fuse agreement was recently approved at the March 21st Board meeting for the amount of $6,600.