Students Rev Their Creative Engines in the Innovation Lab

Our new state-of-the-art Innovation Lab continues to bustle as students expand their problem-solving skills as well as their design, engineering, and computer science repertoires. 

For our second through fourth grades, the Innovation Lab has been a vehicle creation hub! Students first designed cardboard car models to explore the effects of shape and structure on performance. Now complete, they have transitioned to circuitry and digital design to print and race these never-before-seen models on the track.

While their younger counterparts are focused on speed, our middle schoolers are focused on function. They have immersed themselves in 3D design and modeling meeting the challenge of building functional, purpose-driven items such as boxes with lids, hinges, and ball-and-socket connections, learning how real-world designers consider fit, movement, and usability. 

Kindergarten and first grade have been equally busy learning the first steps of innovation: planning, observing, and problem-solving as they tackle smaller projects, such as model volcanoes. 

Alongside every car, storage box, and volcano, the foundations for great innovation are being built!