4th Grade classes rotated through their first STEAM Studio session last month, a new program team taught by Jess Killo (art) and Craig Newberger (science). Session 1 was all about team building, creative solutions, trust and collaboration. As the students worked together to create elaborate masking-tape-mazes, they also had to plan for how they would safely get their classmates across, over and through the obstacles. Not only were they working together to creatively engineer a course, but they were forecasting potential problems and creating solutions to test out. Once the brave and blindfolded volunteer was called forth, the teammates carefully guided them to the starting point. From there, the students could only use verbal instruction and encouragement to get their classmate through the maze. They quickly realized that this instructional process was just like coding! Upon reflection, the students pointed out many aspects of the experience that connected to science, technology, engineering, art and math.
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