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About 80 students participated this year in Bellefonte Area School District’s inaugural STEM Camp held at Pleasant Gap Elementary School. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and math. Teachers volunteered to teach and facilitate lessons and activities with help from three high school students — Abby Harper, Abby Lohr and Keeli Pighetti. The students, going into first to sixth grades, learned about plants and animals, chemistry and the science behind why a volcano erupts, as shown in the photo above. They also made modeling clay like Play-Doh, bottle rockets and more.