SIOUX CENTER—A CTE Booster Club donation this summer completed the full wish list two Sioux Center Middle School science teachers had to enhance the school’s makerspace to be a better space for local students.
Simply put, a makerspace is a place where students can make things. It’s a place for hands-on learning with all the tools for creativity. Every school’s makerspace is different. The middle school’s makerspace, located in the former high school shop class area north of the gymnasium, is an area the district has through a collaboration with Interstates in Sioux Center.
Thanks to the booster club funding, it now also contains more items for students to learn about, including about a dozen problem solving challenge games, a number of robots,…