What happens when you give a child some cardboard, Lego toys and a 3-D printer? That is what schools in the Park City School District are trying to figure out. At the school’s new makerspaces, students are learning to create and design objects of all sizes and functions.
A makerspace is a collaborative place that contains a mix of materials that students can use to invent and build projects. The concept first started to emerge in the district with Park City High School’s Park City Center for Advanced Professional Studies program (PCCAPS) in 2013, but now there are…