Students from the OC Life 21 organization will unveil the first of their projects, the “Lego Room” in the Ocean City Primary School Library, which was constructed this past August.
The Ocean City Life 21 Club is a new club at the primary school intended to teach the design process to students while maintaining free-choice and student exploration. The students were tasked with the challenge of improving the school and/or community. They could choose any topic, any project, anywhere. They were given complete freedom to pursue their ideas and design something from start to finish. The third graders of the primary school identified an under-utilized storage room in the library and wanted to transform it into a usable student space.
They decided that a design lab, or “Makerspace,” would benefit the entire school community and would promote creativity,…
