Our first STEAM design challenge of the year was to: “Dress” the window areas in order to make people feel curious about & welcomed in the makerspace. It was a fun project, and the projects presented at yesterday’s show-and-tell were fantastic.…
Start with a trash can.
The City Avenue campus has opened a brand new makerspace this year. We are grateful to have a new place to call home (with supplies! and plenty of storage space for projects! and new tools!) and thrilled by the opportunities it…
A mini course with Little Baby’s
The design prompt: Help a one-of-a-kind ice cream company create one-of-a-kind wedding cakes out of ice cream. The innovators: 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students who signed up for the “Design, Make, and Market” three-day mini course before spring break.…
Valentine’s Day connections
A small group of tenth and eleventh grade students made a trip to the Lower School campus to work with Kim Parris’s third grade students today. The theme of our day: light-up, pop-up Valentine’s Day cards. The STEAM teachers started…
Technology in Education: A Future Classroom
When I first started this film project with the intention of submitting it to the White House Student Film Festival, I wasn’t completely sure how to go about it. In order to fit the film festival’s criteria I had the…
A make-tastic carnival
It finally arrived! After months of work, our 31 middle school students finally celebrated… With Caine’s Arcade and Makey Makeys as our inspiration, we transformed the empty classrooms in the basement of the middle school into a carnival made out…
Project LEO: Love Each Other
Video by Daniel Nemroff ’15 Every year, for as long as STEAM has been running, which so far is only two years, some students in STEAM try to give a holiday gift to the school. BC, my computer science and…
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…
CryENGINE and the Oculus Rift
Our Goal Our goal is to create a realistic and immersive environment that people can explore using a virtual reality machine. To accomplish this we are using the CryENGINE and the Oculus Rift (virtual reality machine) to create and explore…
Painting Poetry with Robots
The people? Jenna Bergmann (myself), Shira Prusky, and Hannah Szapary. The concept? Painting poetry with robots. I know what you’re thinking — painting poetry either is nonsensical or pretty lame. I don’t mean painting words, though. I mean painting moods.…