Laguna Elementary School, 10475 E. Lakeview Drive., Scottsdale, will host its annual community STEAM night, Thursday, Jan. 30 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Interactive experiments and classroom tours will be offered, and Laguna’s teachers will be in their classrooms to greet both current and future Laguna families. Gifted Specialist Stephanie Shamy was recently named the recipient of a 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 Scottsdale Unified School District’s only toddler program for two-year-olds, offered by the school district’s Community Education department, along with preschool and pre-kindergarten classes.

Laguna has special reason to celebrate this year, having just opened its newly redesigned makerspace, where kindergarten through fifth grade students work together to devise creative solutions to real-world problems.