Innovation at Imani
At The Imani School, students do more than learn about science and technology. They investigate, design, build, program, test, and create. From early exploration through middle school, our students develop the confidence and skills to become thoughtful problem-solvers and future innovators.
STEM at Imani is a way of thinking, questioning, and learning. Students are encouraged to approach challenges with curiosity, collaborate with others, learn from experimentation, and transform their ideas into meaningful solutions.
Nationally STEM Certified. Our program combines strong science instruction, hands-on engineering, computer science, robotics, emerging technology, and nationally recognized STEM practices across the student experience.
A Nationally STEM Certified School
The Imani School is proud to have earned national STEM certification through the National Institute for STEM Education. This recognition reflects our schoolwide commitment to high-quality STEM teaching, meaningful student engagement, interdisciplinary learning, and the development of future-ready skills.
For our families, this certification represents more than a designation. It demonstrates that STEM is intentionally embedded in how our students explore ideas, solve problems, communicate, collaborate, and create.
- Schoolwide commitment to STEM excellence
- Inquiry and problem-based learning
- Collaboration and engineering design
- Future-ready teaching and learning
Nationally Recognized. Student-Centered.
Our students benefit from nationally recognized resources that support rigorous science instruction, hands-on discovery, technology integration, and progressive STEM learning.
National STEM Certification
Recognition of The Imani School’s commitment to high-quality STEM instruction, interdisciplinary learning, innovation, and future-ready student experiences.
Inquiry-Based Science
A hands-on science program that encourages students to investigate real-world phenomena, analyze evidence, ask meaningful questions, and think like scientists and engineers.
Technology and Engineering
Project-based experiences in robotics, animation, artificial intelligence, drones, engineering, augmented and virtual reality, coding, and 3D printing.
STEM Begins with Wonder
Innovation begins when children are given the freedom to ask, “What happens if I try this?”
Our youngest learners explore patterns, motion, cause and effect, construction, collaboration, and creative problem-solving through age-appropriate hands-on experiences. These early discoveries establish a foundation for confidence in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology.
“I wonder” becomes “I can build it.”
Science Comes Alive
Through STEMscopes, students engage with science as active participants. They observe, question, investigate, build, test, analyze, and explain.
Lessons connect scientific concepts to authentic problems and experiences, helping students understand not only what happens, but why it happens and how knowledge can be applied.
- Hands-on scientific investigation
- Real-world phenomena
- Engineering design challenges
- Evidence-based reasoning
- Collaboration and communication
- Interactive and digital learning
From Technology Users to Technology Creators
Through Woz Ed, students engage with technology by designing, building, programming, testing, and improving their own work. These experiences help students develop technical knowledge while strengthening creativity, perseverance, communication, and teamwork.
The Imani School’s Woz Ed curriculum includes a progression of experiences in animation, robotics, augmented and virtual reality, drone technology, artificial intelligence, engineering, 3D printing, and related emerging technologies.
Student Learning Experiences
- Robotics
- Animation
- Drone technology
- Artificial intelligence
- Augmented and virtual reality
- Engineering and 3D printing
- Coding and computational thinking
- Design and prototyping
Innovation in the Classroom
Across grade levels, students apply what they are learning through projects that ask them to design, test, revise, and explain their thinking.
Robotics
Robotics challenges students to combine engineering, coding, mathematics, communication, and persistence. As students work together to build and troubleshoot, they learn that innovation is rarely a straight line, and that meaningful solutions often emerge through testing, revision, and teamwork.
Animation and Digital Storytelling
Through animation and digital storytelling, students learn to plan, sequence, communicate, and bring original ideas to life. The process blends artistic expression with technical thinking, helping students see that creativity and STEM are deeply connected.
Coding and Computer Science
Coding teaches students how to break complex challenges into manageable steps, recognize patterns, test ideas, and communicate instructions with precision. Students build computational thinking skills that support learning across subjects.
Engineering and Teamwork
Whether students are programming a robot, constructing a model, designing a structure, or testing a new idea, they are learning how to communicate, listen, adapt, and contribute to a team. These experiences build skills students will need in high school, college, careers, and leadership.
Students learn that code is not simply something to consume. It is a tool they can use to create.
What Our Students Develop
Curiosity
The confidence to ask meaningful questions and pursue new ideas.
Critical Thinking
The ability to analyze information, evaluate evidence, and make informed decisions.
Creativity
The freedom to imagine, design, and develop original solutions.
Collaboration
The ability to listen, communicate, contribute, and solve problems with others.
Resilience
The willingness to test, revise, learn from setbacks, and continue improving.
Technical Confidence
Experience using tools, technology, engineering practices, and computational thinking.
A Progressive STEM Journey
Early Childhood and Primary Grades
Explore
Students investigate, observe, build, create patterns, and develop confidence through guided discovery.
- Early engineering
- Scientific exploration
- Creative technology
- Foundational coding concepts
- Collaboration
Elementary Grades
Build
Students apply scientific and mathematical ideas through increasingly complex design challenges and technology experiences.
- Robotics
- Animation
- Coding
- Engineering design
- Scientific investigation
Middle School
Innovate
Students strengthen technical and analytical skills through advanced project-based experiences and emerging technologies.
- Artificial intelligence
- Drone technology
- Robotics
- Augmented and virtual reality
- Engineering and 3D printing
The experiences above represent a broad progression across grade levels. Offerings vary by grade and school year.
STEM in Action
See Innovation in Action
Discover how The Imani School combines academic excellence, hands-on learning, strong values, and future-ready experiences to help every student grow with confidence and purpose.
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Serving students from Pre-K through eighth grade.