Need a brain break? Try coloring!

The adult coloring craze has moved into DPMS. Students can take a "mini break" from school during SRT by ripping out a page from one of our coloring books.

A-MAZE-ING! Foxview student is first to complete Sphero robot programming challenge

Congratulations to this 6th grade Foxview student for his first-place finish in the Sphero robot programming challenge!

Creating some G-Force in the FX Studio Makerspace

A student in the FX Studio Makerspace shows off his G-Force gadget.

Learning Robotics a littleBit at a Time!

Students in the FX Studio Makerspace test out their littleBit Gizmos & Gadgets vehicle.

Gizmos & Gadgets allow students to follow project blueprints or engineer their own designs.

WPS Grant Provides littleBits Gizmos & Gadgets Kits!

Gizmos & Gadgets student creation in FX Studio Makerspace

Thanks to the generosity of a WPS Innovative Educator Grant, the FX Studio Makerspace was able to purchase seven littleBits Gizmos & Gadgets kits. All 5th and 6th grade classes will have the opportunity to build, engineer, and create with these kits for four days this year! 

600 Students, 1 Makerspace? No Problem!

Students in the FX Studio Makerspace

We're excited to announce that by the end of December 2015, all 600 students at Foxview Intermediate School had received their Makerspace orientation! Beginning in January 2016, students now have the opportunity to drop in to the FX Studio during their workshop times.

SRT Workshops at the Middle School

Over the last few weeks, we've taken a different approach to utilizing our Makerspace at the Middle School.

For the first couple of months, we made the decision to have the space "open" and let students drop in and experiment with all of the new items we had to offer. We felt this was an important exploratory phase to give all students a chance to jump in and see what areas they might really like and try and generate some project ideas.

In an attempt to try and take the experience deeper, we wanted to offer more indepth explorations of the tools we have available. So far, we have offered workshops featuring:

Coding with Google Apps Script for the "Hour of Code" week.

Programming the Sphero robot to complete a maze.

Modifying the hardware of the Raspberry Pi to allow for touch and gesture control on the Hover add-on board.

We have more sessions planned for the future to explore other ways of using the Raspberry Pi, 3D modeling and Printing, Green Screen video making and editing, App Development, electronics prototyping with littleBits, and much more!

The future is exciting here at our Middle School makerspace as we get new equipment, new ideas, and new students willing to create their own learning.