Nelson Elementary

Destination Imagination is a fun-filled, exciting activity that challenges students to find creativity and work with technology to some of life's most pressing problems.  Teams can choose from a wide variety of challenges and presentation in which to compete.   A school staff member will help facilitate a team's enrollment and competition, but Destination Imagination requires at least one parent coach and one advisor per team.  Teams can consist of 2-7 students in any grade level.   

Any parents who would like to know more about Destination Imagination and what is involved to be a DI coach should contact the school for more information.  Come join the fun!!

History Day is an exciting adventure, allowing students to research topics that are of a particular interest to them.  It does take work outside of our scheduled meetings, but not only is knowledge gained, but also students are given the opportunity to present the work they have created, teaching valuable public speaking skills.

Please see Mr. Spencer (room 4) if you have questions about participating in History Day.

Join the History Day Google Classroom to stay updated! 

Class Code: 6ar7da5

Robotics is a parent-facilitated co-curricular event.  Any students who are interested in Robotics can create a team as long as parents are willing to facilitate the practices and competitions.   Each team can have up to 8 students.  A faculty member at Nelson provides the information and direction to parent-coaches.  

Robotics teams usually meet beginning at the start of the school year with a culminating tournament in early December.  Robotics is fun, exciting, and an excellent way to build problem solving, team-work, and science/math skills.

If you are interested in being a Robotics coach, please contact Dickie McBrien.

Students participating in Science Fair must chose a testable question, develop a hypothesis and experiments to test that hypothesis, perform the experiments, collect data, and deduce whether the data supports their hypothesis or not. All areas of science are open, as long as the student's question is testable. Students who perform well at the school level are eligible for competition at the CCRSEMF each spring. Science Fair is encouraged for all 4th-6th grade students at Nelson as an enrichment to their academic program! 

Advisor: Marie Santos