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Makerspace

Makerspace

"MAKERSPACES PROVIDE HANDS-ON, CREATIVE WAYS TO ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO DESIGN, EXPERIMENT, BUILD AND INVENT AS THEY DEEPLY ENGAGE IN SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TINKERING.”- EDUTOPIA

 

A diagram illustrating the five stages of design thinking: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.


Design Thinking in the Makerspace
Double Peak School students have a 30-40 minute Innovation Block within their daily schedules. Within this block, classes cycle through engineering, technology, and/or design thinking in the Makerspace. While in the DPS Makerspace, classes have two weeks to go through the Design Thinking Process to build prototypes to help solve real world or curricular Design Challenges. 

A young student proudly displays a cardboard model of a community, complete with a food store and water source.

A young girl smiles while holding a whiteboard with colorful sticky notes.

A young girl smiles brightly while holding a gray ninja-themed toy.