UVA Community Credit Union Sponsors Woodbrook Elementary School MakerSpace
MakerSpace promotes learning through tinkering and innovation
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – (October 16, 2015) – UVA Community Credit Union, a not-for-profit, member-owned financial institution, is proud to sponsor Woodbrook Elementary School’s new MakerSpace. This space provides students with an area to design, experiment, build and invent as they deeply engage in science, engineering and tinkering. The MakerSpace experiential learning program is designed to parallel the nationwide STEM curriculum as a way to bring science, technology, engineering and math to life.
“Children learn from books, but they also learn from experience, and we wanted to make the MakerSpace a place kids go to outside the classroom that provides them this opportunity to learn differently and in more authentic…