If you were to walk in to the Makerspace classroom at Macdonough STEM Academy in Middletown, it might look like a normal gathering of students.
However, each group represents their own company.
“Makerspace is design and engineering, and using the engineering design process to solve a problem,” Amy Senna, the school’s library media specialist, said.
She explains that throughout the six years that a child spends at the school, they take part in different project-based learning tasks based on grade level.
Starting in Kindergarten, “they learn to do the steps of the engineering site design process, which is asking a question, brainstorming ideas, creating a plan and then creating their design and then making improvements as needed.”
The fourth graders are creating a tiny house for “clients,” made up of members of the Middletown community, weaving…
