The STEAM blog is now the FCS makerspace blog. Wondering why? We started a STEAM program, and three years later, we’ve outgrown the acronym. Here’s how it happened: Start with design: The hated classroom chair. We asked students to redesign them.…
Ideation is Improvisation
If you’ve ever studied acting or improvisation, you are probably familiar with the “Yes, and…” exercise. In this activity, participants are asked to have a free-flowing conversation with the only requirement being that every response begin with the words “Yes,…
Modeling Iterative Design: Introducing Pop Up Projects
For teachers, creating constructive and dynamic curriculum and activities is our most common creative task. Since I started working on the STEAM program last year, I have become much more conscious of the role that iterative design can play in…
STEAM: What we’re working on now
So far we have shared stories of the first year of STEAM. Now that we are a couple of months into our second year of STEAM, it seems the time is right for a more current update. This year we…
STEAM: Year One, Part One
“Hi, welcome to STEAM. I’m Josh Weisgrau and I think that every problem in the world can be solved by great design. Mr. Buck, over here to my right, thinks that every problem in the world can be solved by…