What do you get when you start with corks, cardboard, and a hot glue gun? Boats, of course! Our students worked in pairs to design a boat that would carry a cargo of two cups full of sand. After drawing their design and creating a “parts list”, our teams constructed […]
Yearly Archives: 2018
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This year we are excited to start a special technology-focused program for our middle-school students. We started the year with an introduction to computer programming using SCRATCH – a graphically based system created at MIT for teaching basic concepts and enabling students to create their own interactive games, stories, and […]
After studying the anatomy of our legs and feet and the mechanics of motion, we asked our students to design and create their own shoes using cardboard, tape, and other recycled materials. Their shoes needed to provide the functionality of a basic shoe — protection, improved stability & balance, increased […]