Sacred Heart School
In September, Sacred Heart School kicked off its first makerspace challenge.
A makerspace is a common place where students share interests, ideas, equipment and knowledge to create, invent, learn and explore.
All students in kindergarten through eighth grade competed in the challenge in which the creative word was “cardboard.” The topic was broad because Sacred Heart wants students to have the chance to be creative and to challenge themselves.
The projects included wild and domestic animals from kindergarten to Viking ships from eighth graders. The fifth-grade students created landforms and major waters, and third-graders made virtue webs, just to name a few.
“I have selected our third-graders to highlight how our school takes standard curriculums and allows them to explode in our students’ minds. It really is just…