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Davis seventh-grader Dulce puts pen to not-paper to make a 3D guitar figure.
Out of thin air and a 3Doodler pen emerged an avocado, guitar, and lava lamp — as hands-on learning took a new shape, literally, in the Upper Westville classrooms at Davis Academy for Arts & Design Innovation.
In Laura Discenza’s class at the 35 Davis St. PreK‑8 public school, seventh graders worked on their end of year projects on Monday. The students in Discenza’s class have selected technology “majors” meaning their end of year projects will be technology focused.
Six of the 10 students are working with 3D printing for those projects, with others pursuing coding and creating robots from microbit kits.
Discenza is Davis’s K‑8 technology teacher. She has taught at Davis for six out of her 11 total years in education. Her classroom lessons…
