FUN AND EDUCATIONAL—Sixth-graders Nathan Rieker, 11, left, Vivek Tarapara, 12, and Rishi Goel, 12, work together to build a robot out of Magformers, a magnetic construction set, inside Vista Fundamental’s new Makerspace building on March 13.
STEM education is in full bloom at Vista Fundamental Elementary School.
Last week the elementary campus previewed its new Vista21 Makerspace and STEM lab during a schoolwide open house March 12. The lab will be open to students and teachers starting today.
A kind of modern-day workshop, the makerspace is a place where students can explore science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in a hands-on way.
The room includes low-tech items like wooden building blocks and magnetic construction kits, as well as high-tech microcontroller boards and microcomputers, among other types of equipment.
Principal Kristen Hardy said Vista is the first…
