How can we design and create a "safety suit" for Humpty Dumpty?
7th Grade Biomedical PBL
How can we use digital fabrication to make a prosthetic device for animals who have lost a limb? With Special thanks to Ezra Reynolds from Signal Centers who came to share his experiences making and innovating devices for people with disabilities.
HS US History PBL
How can we design and create artifacts* to film a lost “Forrest Gump” movie scene for the extended blu ray release? *Artifacts can be props or set designs needed to film the scene - because of “movie magic” scale is not important.
Human Innovation: Moving from the "Paper Age" to the "Cardboard Age" and beyond: How can human innovation change civilization? After a seminar about human innovation using phones, students were asked to create a Stone-Age like tool using only tools from the eLab's "Paper Age". Then they iterated these prototype twice more moving into the "Cardboard Age" and finally the "Digital Fabrication Age". Students documented each prototype and explained how their fabrication ages were similar and different to the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age innovations.
Finishing up 2017
VR Tours of the CSAS eLab
September 2017
Art 1 students starting their Machines PBL. You can see the rubric here. More students are becoming expert makers during Open Hours, too.
CSAS students volunteer at the Chattanooga Mini Maker Faire, 9/9/17
eLab up and Running - August 2017
7th Grade Science students have begun their Earthquake resistant buildings PBL (rubric here) and more students are starting to come in during "Open Hours" to do personal projects.