By james art 
Laguna Elementary School, 10475 E. Lakeview Drive., Scottsdale, will host its annual community STEAM evening Thursday, January 30 from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.
Interactive experiments and classroom tours will be offered, and Laguna teachers will be in their classrooms to greet both current and future Laguna families. Specialist Stephanie Shami was recently named the recipient of the 2025 National Science Foundation Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
In addition to being a Cognia-certified STEM school, Laguna is home to the Scottsdale Unified School District’s only toddler program for two-year-olds offered by the school district’s public education department, along with preschool and preschool classes.
Laguna has a special reason to celebrate this year, having just opened its newly designed makerspace, where students in kindergarten through fifth grade work together to come up with creative solutions to real-world problems.