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Renaissance Community School faculty visit Lesley STEAM Learning Lab for maker mindset field trip

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A group of teachers from New Bedford Public Schools interact with the MaKey MaKey and Scratch. They are connecting the MaKey MaKey alligator clips to brass fasteners on a map of the US and subsequently programming Scratch to trigger facts about each state or state capital.

Lesley STEAM Learning Lab welcomed the entire faculty and administration from the Renaissance Community School in New Bedford, Mass, for a full day interactive workshop. Based on the school’s desire to integrate standards-based making into the curriculum, Lesley STEAM developed a series of projects to engage the staff in collaborative problem solving and inquiry-based learning.

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STEAM in the Riverside Event

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STEAM night families engaged

Lesley STEAM joined in another rollicking evening of making at the STEAM in Riverside event at the MLK Jr. Elementary School in Cambridge, thanks to Sharlene Yang, Coordinator of the Cambridge STEAM Initiative. K-8 students brought the idea of Hack the Dollar Store to life with outlandish electronic redesigns of dollar store items.

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