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STEM / STEAM Program

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STEAM Certified 2025-2030 Announcement

We are honored to have received our CCSD STEAM Certification. Go Team Ford!


Read more about our STEM/STEAM Program

  • Teachers are provided intentional planning for standards based learning with interdisciplinary connections.
  • Students interact with STEM Career Speakers: meteorologist, astronaut, nurse, pilot, veterinarian, civil and mechanical engineers, etc. 
  • Students participate with an innovative Earth Parent Program where parents deliver educational lessons with teacher support that connect grade level standards to sustainability and environmental education.
  • Students participate I Project Based Learning and Environmental Education opportunities which are aligned with grade level standards and relevant to the real world. 
  • We partner with community organizations and businesses and believe that this relationship is foundational.  Partners include: Ford Elementary School Foundation, Ford PTSA, Cobb EMC, C & S Paving, Signs and More, Northwest Family YMCA, Captain Planet, Brookstone Animal Hospital, and more!

Environmental Education  

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STEM Focused Career Speakers and Technology Integration

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Debbie Broadnax, Principal
Meghan Smith, Assistant Principal

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