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May’s Design Round Table @ The Shipley School

May’s Design Round Table was held at The Shipley School and hosted by Lower School Science Teacher Dan Del Duca and Upper School Science Teacher and Elizabeth Zodda. We began with a discussion on how maker-ed skills can be incorporated into other disciplines, and shared stories of how making has facilitated cross-disciplinary projects. Afterwards, we…

April’s Design Round Table @ University of the Arts Industrial Design

April’s Design Round Table brought together an exciting mix of K-12 and university educators at the Industrial Design department at The University of the Arts. Industrial Design Program Director Alexandra Schmidt-Ullrich took us on a tour of the undergraduate studios, where we met students diligently working on their final projects. She also walked us through…

March’s Design Round Table @ Baldwin School

This month Ryan Barnes, DREAM Lab coordinator at Baldwin School led and hosted at Baldwin’s DREAM Lab maker spaces in the lower, middle, and upper schools. Ryan showed us the different spaces, projects, and tools used to ignite inquiry and facilitate hands-on learning at Baldwin. Their fantastic projects ranged from 3D printed bubble wands, to…

February’s Design Round Table @ Friends’ Central Light Lab

February’s round table brought together a great group of educators, designers, and makers. Brie Daley, Light Lab Director at Friends’ Central School (FCS), led and hosted the round table at the new Ulmer Family Light Lab, a lower school making facility equipped with four themed Maker Studios. After a welcome from the FCS lower school…

January’s LEE Design Round Table @ Agnes Irwin

Margaret Powers kicked off January’s LEE Design Round Table by leading us through Draw Toast, a drawing exercise that explores systems thinking. Dan Slack of Agnes Irwin School then led the meeting by sharing his vision for his “Design and Build” class, a two-week special study program for students who want to learn what it’s…

November’s LEE Design Round Table @ Mercy CTE

Gary Heidt, a design minded learner and educator, led November’s LEE Design Round Table. Gary began the meeting by leading an empathy building activity based on the children’s book, The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires. Each participant reflected on the people, objects, places, and actions that are important to them, diagramed their reflections, and…