Description
You might be asking, “Why 3D Printing?” Whether students are creating name tags, balloon-powered racers, or articulating Minecraft characters, 3D Printing has vast benefits. Read our article, “3D Printing – Changing the Way Our Students Learn” to find out the top 3 reasons STEAMwhiz Innovation Labs uses and instructs students in 3D design and fabrication.
CREATE – SOLVE – INNOVATE
This is Different! Don’t wait to expose kids to Applied Mathematics, Engineering, 3D Design, Fabrication, Printing & more. In this 6-week course level up your student’s creative problem-solving ability by developing their skills in Science, Tech, Engineering, Art, Math (STEAM) with Intro to 3D Design & Prototyping – an I.D.E.A.S MakerLab Course – featuring a mobile computer lab (1 PC per student) and 3D Printer.
Lab Participants will get hands-on with 3D Printing, computer-aided design software, and the design process while investigating mathematical concepts of 3D shapes and space, measurement, and cartesian coordinates.
Lab participants will experiment with grouping shapes, negative space design, and custom text to design and fabricate their own unique 3D prototype.
STEAMwhiz Innovation Labs are empowering NextGen ‘Thinkers & Doers’ with the critical skill of creative problem-solving & analytical thinking to be successful in an AI future!
The STEAM Team
This lab program is taught by STEAMwhiz’s educational program director Allie Pulecio. She is certified in K-6th education, published STEM education work in a peer-reviewed journal, and has over 20 years of classroom experience and curriculum development. The lab is overseen by STEAMwhiz’s scientist Dr. J who holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences, has worked as a physicist at premier U.S. research institutions, as well as an engineer at fortune 500 companies, and authored over a dozen publications in top-tier journals. Together they are driven by their passion to empower students to develop their analytical and critical thinking, necessary to prepare them for the future. STEAMwhiz Innovation Labs offers year-round STEM programs, MakerLab events, and Sci-Tech Summer Camps. Visit steamwhiz.com to learn more about the STEAMTeam and their mission.
Explore Up
Science and Tech behind 3D Printing
Experiment with grouping shapes, negative space design, and custom text
Skill Up
The Engineering Design Process
CAD (Computer Aided Design) Software
Mathematical concepts of 3D shapes and space, measurement, and cartesian coordinates
Build Up
Putting it All Together!
Design and Fabricate their own unique 3D Prototype
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Our Method of Success
Eliminate the fear and allow our children the time and space to fail forward and succeed. The STEAMwhiz Method will help students build their confidence in themselves and their abilities through discovery, tests, creation, and analysis. STEAMwhiz kids will be able to embrace the idea that failures lead to opportunities to learn and grow. STEM/STEAM learning experiences offer amazing opportunities to develop powerful GROWTH MINDSET attributes, which are pivotal for success!
Prior Knowledge
Each lab is built upon the other. Students will be given the time necessary to develop new connections resulting in new learning. When instruction is not jumping from one new thing to the next, students can develop goals, take on challenges, learn from mistakes, practice new skills, persevere, and ultimately create a culminating “Show-What-You-Know” PBL unit (project-based learning).
Project-Based Learning
Project-based learning empowers students to seize control over their learning experiences, following their interests and passions as they address a driving question or challenge; through investigation and inquiry; student voice and choice; reflection; revision; and finally, a project to be shared and celebrated. As students work with one another to create projects to share, they become responsible for the assessment of their work. Project-based learning frees students from the anxiety of meeting the expectations of school and/or instructors while allowing them the agency to create using the meaning they’ve developed from their experiences. This is a powerful re-imagination of what is possible!
COVID-19 Safety
At STEAMwhiz we are guided by the best-known science and follow the most conservative, best practices to ensure your children and our educators are safe.
Sick/Symptomatic Guidelines – any child that shows any symptoms that are related to, been in contact with, or contracted COVID-19 please refer to the latest guidelines from the CDC. If you have any doubt please contact us before bringing your child.
HVAC system – The STEAMwhiz lab has a dedicated air handler that is constantly filtering air 24hr a day and 7 days a week. The MERV filters being used are rated eleven or better and have been tested in our labs to remove particles down to 0.1 microns (similar to N95 masks).
HEPA Filtertration System
Laboratory Decontamination – On top of the air being cleansed 24/7, the STEAMwhiz lab is decontaminated after every session. All hard surfaces are wiped down using a bleach solution and the lab is exposed to UVC radiation nightly.
Mask Policy – Optional *As of April 2022
Social distancing – There will be a maximum of 6 children per session in the lab and social distancing protocols will be followed.
