{"id":62105,"date":"2025-11-20T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/62105\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:56:00","slug":"comets-soar-to-victory-in-the-first-ever-steam-yard-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/62105\/","title":{"rendered":"Comets Soar to Victory in the First-Ever STEAM Yard Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tension and excitement filled the room as 5th graders from Panama-Buena Vista Union School District (PBVUSD) and Bakersfield City School District (BCSD) came together for the final challenge of Do the Math\u2019s inaugural STEAM Yard Showdown Championship at the STEAM Yard Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\"\"Cypress, a 5th grader from PBVUSD, posing with her medal next to the STEAM Yard Stanley \u201cCushine Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the championship round, the four teams \u2014 the Comets, Knights, Lightning, and Sharks \u2014 took on one last fast-paced challenge: building a catapult with limited time and materials to score as many points as possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cheers, gasps, and last-minute design tweaks kept the room buzzing until the final countdown.\u00a0When the countdown ended and the points were tallied, the Comets were crowned as the first-ever STEAM Yard Showdown Champions!<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels amazing and kind of scary at the same time,\u201d said Alani, a student from PBVUSD, excited after the win. \u201cI really wish that the other contestants here don\u2019t feel discouraged and get to win another round next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The competition may have ended, but the spark of innovation and desire for another chance of winning the STEAM Yard Stanley\u00a0\u2014 also known as the \u201cCushine Cup\u201d \u2014 hasn\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Catch all the action from the grand finale HERE<\/a> \u2014 and get ready for more hands-on excitement when the STEAM Yard Showdown returns next spring.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy Erin Pruitt<\/p>\n

Erin Pruitt joined the Kern County Superintendent of Schools as a Communications Specialist in 2025. Before this role, Pruitt served as an Assistant Producer for KETN’s Do the Math program since 2017, where she first discovered her passion for storytelling and community engagement in the field of communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tension and excitement filled the room as 5th graders from Panama-Buena Vista Union School District (PBVUSD) and Bakersfield…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-62105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}