STEM Summer Institute 2026

The audience will be shown previous presentations, given the purpose of the project, and allowed to create their own presentations for a particular Montana Indigenous group. The topics will be summer versus winter hunting grounds, the distance determined between the two, and the finding of the midpoint of the journey using the Desmos geometry tool. Then the audience will determine the size of the cache pot needed to store the supplies of the tribe for a winter season. Both the midpoint determination and the size of the cache will use geometric tools and formulas. Students in the presentations presented their slides, which also included biological information, as the original project was a cross-curricular project.