David Jay (2000) is our first guest speaker in the Makerspace. On Monday, 11/16, during lunch from 12:15 to 12:45, David will go through a short design exercise and talk about the startup and social enterprise scenes in San Francisco, New York, and Saint Louis. David will also show a demo of his new work. Please try this link for...

Seventh through ninth grades completed their first design-thinking challenge thanks to the “Crash Course” from the Institute of Design at Stanford University.  Students redesigned   the backpack, something that is integral to every student’s daily experience.  After being asked to come up with ideas outside of the box and to go for “volume and variety” when generating ideas (ideation), several backpacks with...

“What has happened in the Makerspace so far?” you ask. Keep reading to find out! What construction and design work took place to remake a regular classroom into a Makerspace? Carpet removed Subfloor ground, leveled, and stained Windows installed in Mac Lab and Makerspace Double door installed New Makerspace closet added New vent fan installed in the ceiling Painted all walls, hallway,...

Over Spring Break, 10 students traveled to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to attend the annual Engineering Open House (http://eoh.ec.illinois.edu/) and had a great time! Of the hundreds of exhibits and demonstrations, some of the favorites were the robotics competitions, the sprinkler system demonstration which involved a live dorm room fire, and watching concrete crumble under the stress of...