Project Gallery

In May 2022, the MCPE provided grant funding to purchase the GlowForge, laser cutter machine. Mr. Gow's 6th Grade Exploration Class were the very first to experiment with figuring out how to create designs by drawing on paper & scanning it into the GlowForge software or designing in BookCreator. The photo shows the results in clear Acrylic and Basswood.

Blakers were inspired by watching Caine's Arcade and given the challenge to design their own arcade game. Each team had access to all kinds of cardboard and other everyday materials like popsicle sticks, cups, etc. At the end of the project, it was game time to have fun in our own Blake Arcade.

The Cricut Cutting machine was introduced to students to create a layered collage to represent their selected birds and to express their understanding of the bird. 

The 6Grade Art class wanted to create their own designs for stamping clay.  We opened up Tinkercad for the first time & within 20 minutes, students had their designs to send to the 3D printer.  This was apart of a Clay Building Structure project.

Classic Games are such a familiar & engaging way to learn about physical computing with the micro:bit. Hot Potato is one of those games that teaches inputs, outputs, and variables by coding a timer!

Blakers participated in our at-school Festival of Hope to learn about the Ukraine culture through activities will include designing a traditional Vinok (flower headpiece), observing cossack dancing, listening to traditional music, writing their name in a new language, and weaving blue & yellow hearts into the fence as (Yarn4Hope). 

6Graders in the Caprio-Heim Explorations class put a needle & thread to a photo to add onto the story. Then, wrote their own poem to match the illustration.

A community project where anyone (teachers, parents, students) could make a flower by any means necessary:) Crochet, knit, Painted paper with pom poms, tissue paper and more. All familiars were placed on portable standing bulletin boards out in the LMC.