Valley View Boys' Leadership Academy STEAM Lab Grand Opening!
Congratulations to Ms. Aquino and the teachers, staff and students at VVBLA on an amazing grand opening event! The Cavs and Goodyear provided the schools with a brand new STEAM Lab and celebrated with a fun opening day with Dancers, Moondog, Basketball Drills and more!
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Pre-K VV boys and BIG Cavs players! | The new STEAM Lab is beautiful! Now its time to make a mess! | Students already having a blast making great things |
Pre-K VV boys and BIG Cavs players!
The new STEAM Lab is beautiful! Now its time to make a mess!
Students already having a blast making great things
Cavs' DIFF Maker of the Game
The Cleveland Cavaliers awarded the CMSD Fab Lab Manager, Sarah Prendergast Wallace as the DIFF Maker of the Game last month. The Cavs choose one member of the Cleveland Community to honor for their work within the city.
Thank you Cavs!
February 17th Professional Devepment
Using Canva in your Classroom 10am - 12pm
Canva is a powerful and fun design tool that is free for all CMSD teachers and students. This workshop will help educators new to Canva learn the basics and allow folks who are already experts time to share their favorite projects.
Space is limited- you must register through powerschool.
Fab Project Planning 1-4pm
This session is for teachers who are already using digital fabrication in their classrooms.
Please come share student work and lesson ideas, collaborate on new ideas and explore what is possible in the Fab Lab
Open Lab Time
Open lab time is like office hours for the Fab Lab. You can drop by to pick up consumable materials, ask for help on a software, work together with your peers on a project idea, use a machine you've already been trained on, or just hang out!
Monday, January 23rd 1-4pm
Monday, February 6th 1-4pm
Wednesday, March 1st 1-4pm
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MLK / Obama Lesson and Poster Design Students learn about MLK and Obama before creating their own version of the iconic Obama poster. Full lesson plan can be found on SCOPES, here. | RBG Women's History Lesson and Maker Project Celebrate Women's history by learning about RBG and creating your own epic collar of strength and leadership. Lesson is here. | Design a Book Cover with Canva Students can read a book as a class, or in small groups, or write their own story before using Canva to create their own book cover! Lesson, by Jordan Seigler, here. |
MLK / Obama Lesson and Poster Design
Students learn about MLK and Obama before creating their own version of the iconic Obama poster. Full lesson plan can be found on SCOPES, here.
RBG Women's History Lesson and Maker Project
Celebrate Women's history by learning about RBG and creating your own epic collar of strength and leadership. Lesson is here.
Design a Book Cover with Canva
Students can read a book as a class, or in small groups, or write their own story before using Canva to create their own book cover! Lesson, by Jordan Seigler, here.
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Student Made Vases for New CMSD Restaurant Students in the digital arts program at East Tech designed these vases to be used as the centerpieces for the New CMSD Restaurant Opening next month! | Custom T Shirts with a Silhouette Cameo Middle school students at Tremont Montessori are designing and fabricating their own tshirts. Happy Holidays! | Kindergarten City brought to Life! Students at Halle were able to see their city come to life with use of a Glowforge Laser. The students learned about city design before deciding what each city needs. After the buildings were fabricated they get to work on the layout and create a map as well. |
Student Made Vases for New CMSD Restaurant
Students in the digital arts program at East Tech designed these vases to be used as the centerpieces for the New CMSD Restaurant Opening next month!
Custom T Shirts with a Silhouette Cameo
Middle school students at Tremont Montessori are designing and fabricating their own tshirts. Happy Holidays!
Kindergarten City brought to Life!
Students at Halle were able to see their city come to life with use of a Glowforge Laser. The students learned about city design before deciding what each city needs. After the buildings were fabricated they get to work on the layout and create a map as well.
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SkillsUSA! Engineering students at East Tech traveled to Columbus for the Fall Leadership Student conference. | Mathematical Transformations and 3D Printing This student used tinkercad rotation to represent mathematical rigid transformations. The printed version came out great! | Special Teddy Bears Principals from K-8 Network 1 were able to take home a teddy bear from this month's meeting with a custom made tshirt! Principals first filled the teddy bear with a heart representing a special student before sewing them back up. |
SkillsUSA!
Engineering students at East Tech traveled to Columbus for the Fall Leadership Student conference.
Mathematical Transformations and 3D Printing
This student used tinkercad rotation to represent mathematical rigid transformations. The printed version came out great!
Special Teddy Bears
Principals from K-8 Network 1 were able to take home a teddy bear from this month's meeting with a custom made tshirt! Principals first filled the teddy bear with a heart representing a special student before sewing them back up.
Lending Library- borrow great Fab Stuff!
Would you like to bring more STEM and FAB to your classroom? Check out items available from the CMSD Fab Lab Lending Library! Some items are first come first serve, some require training and maintenance time, some are in high demand and have a wait list. When items are available you will be contacted via email and can pick things up at Open Lab Time.
Click here to request items / join the waitlist for technology.
CMSD Fab Lab
East Professional Center, room 204
