Students, families question decision to close Aurora STEM school Fifth-grader Dylan Shields says he has never been more challenged or more excited to learn since he started attending the John C. Dunham STEM Partnership School two years ago. Through the program, the Naperville boy recently created a greenhouse to grow plants and built a solar-powered car model, he said. Courtesy of Angela and Dylan Shields
With the John C. Dunham STEM Partnership School on the Aurora University campus slated to close at the end of the 2021-22 academic year, partnering districts are eyeing expanded STEM opportunities within their own schools.