LAGRANGE — THINC College & Career Academy is one of 10 schools nationwide to win a grant for a “makeover.”
More than 640 schools from all 50 states and Washington, D.C., entered the CTE Makeover Challenge, states a press release from the U.S. Department of Education. The academy was awarded $20,000 in funds, which will be used for materials to turn a space in the school’s business lab into what the challenge designates as a “makerspace … an environment or facility that provides resources, materials and equipment for students to conceive, create and collaborate through making,” its website states.
In this case, the space will be used for a collaborative project between the school’s business/marketing and engineering students.
“We had a large space in the business lab and came up with the idea to use that and have engineering students develop some type of product that the marketing…
