On a recent afternoon at Longfellow Middle School, an energetic group of students piled into a room that until recently served as the campus cafeteria.
There were no sandwiches or milk cartons to be seen, though — just a stack of two-by-fours and saws.
Teacher Matt Hinckley held up a piece of lumber. “Plywood,” he told the seventh- and eighth-grade students, “is an incredible human innovation. We totally take it for granted.”
When a new lunchroom opened last year, the old cafeteria was identified as a prime location for the district’s first “maker space,” where students could come to devise and create a fusion of art, engineering and…
