Today a Challenger. Tomorrow an Engineer.
HOME OF THE DEMA CHALLENGERS
Home of the Challengers
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The school’s mission, vision, and values directly aligns to the district’s mission, vision, and values with an intentional focus on engineering. Downtown Elementary Magnet Academy’s program uniquely accomplishes this through a high level of student engagement using an engineering curriculum that prepares students to become leaders capable of solving challenges.
Magnet Mission
Our mission is to explore engineering excellence by building upon each scholar’s strengths and interest using collaboration, problem solving, and critical thinking.
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Magnet Vision
Our vision is to provide engineering experiences using an inquiry based curriculum that embraces student creativity and teaches critical thinking and reasoning skills.
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District 7 Representative
Pat Frey
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