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The STEAM-Powered Elementary School: Montour Opens World’s First Lego-Themed Brick Makerspace
Montour Elementary School’s latest makerspace, the first of its kind powered by Lego Education, wasn’t the school’s first advanced, hands-on learning lab, and it won’t be its last.
Montour Elementary students collaborate on designing and building cars, which they will then race down a custom track built by Montour High School students. That’s just one set of hands-on activities in Montour Elementary’s new Brick Makerspace, which formally opened Feb. 22.
Pennsylvania’s Montour Elementary School stands out even among schools that have embraced STEAM education, the maker movement, hands-on learning and augmented and virtual reality. So when the K–4 school opened the world’s first “Brick Makerspace”…
