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The middle school students were given the challenge to create and build a toy or game with moving parts. They are diving into the challenge.
A group of National Honor Society students from Lake Orion High School helped this year at our annual STEAM Recycled Fashion Event. The event happened after school from 3:30-6:30. All the participants had a fabulous time.
The middle school students created maker proposals this month. They researched and submitted their idea on what they wanted to work on. Students choose wood burning projects, 3D Pen projects, stop motion projects, sewing projects and soldering sculpture projects. As they have finished they have been assisting classmates or choosing new activities. They love the freedom and choices and I love the creativity and skill building. Third and fourth grades each got to create three dimensional trees using the maker space this week. They were able to choose any materials and create. They had to think about the geometric shape of the tree and how to make their tree a similar shape. They had fun creating but really enjoyed the process. Today the first graders spent their STEM time decorating their Gingerbread Community. On Friday we will be adding trees. We also have skype dates with two other classes in different parts of the United States coming up. Today it was so wonderful to see how the MakerSpace has become the heart of our building. The first picture shows the middle school students doing science research, the 3rd graders working on a STEM building/coding project and some junior kindergartners using the library area and others using the engineering toys. The 5th graders are exploring a variety of materials to MAKE in the MakerSpace. Now that we have tried the 3D pens and the wood burners, we are hoping for a few more, as their is a line to use them. The sewing station has been very interesting as well. The third graders are continuing working on the coding and MakeyMakey projects. This time, they are making game controllers in any way they want. They are developing a variety of games that these controllers can interact with. It's fun to see the creative juices flowing!
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