Jun. 7—HIGH POINT — A school bus has been converted in a makerspace to be a mobile lab visiting Guilford County middle schools, and it will get its first full use this summer in High Point.
Shift_ed, a nonprofit organization that aims to improve students’ career and technical education, and Forge Greensboro plan for the bus, which they are calling the Mobile Innovation Lab, to be stocked with projects that allow students to get hands-on experience careers in STEAM, or science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics.
The bus will visit each school once a week for eight weeks, said shift — ed President and CEO Wendey Poteat.
“The assessments that we do for every middle school student in the county year over year — it shows that we don’t really have a talent gap. The students have the talent, what they actually have is an exposure gap,” Poteat said. “We want to get the…
