MakerSpace, a Place for Creativity

The new MakerSpace in front of the old cafeteria was recently opened to provide a place for students and teachers to develop hands-on projects that require the use of tools like drills, saws and other building supplies.

A year ago, when TCS held a Robotics Competition, the MakerSpace was created and since then, this space was left for the students and teachers who wish to work in a safe and comfortable place.

The MakerSpace is a place where students create and build their assigned projects. For example  an 8th grade science project was the Eggstronaut, Egglight, Eggdrop, even DI Kids have used it to build the Maze Travelers project.

“The MakerSpace is a place where we make things, we build things and we are the teachers and the students,” Hector Londoño, Technology Coach, said.

In 8th grade, students have created several amount of projects one of them is the Eggstronaut, Jeronimo Restrepo, an 8th Grade Student, has worked in the MakerSpace and mentioned how useful has been this space to create and build their projects.

“We have made the Eggstronaut project,  which helped us to build the model with a lot of detail,” Restrepo said.

The MakerSpace is a new place, has been available for a year now. The M.S was built and created at first for a Robotics competition, and then was offered to the teachers and students to work on future projects.

“This space was created a year ago, we created for the Robotics competition,” Londoño said.

The MakerSpace is available for those who reserve it in the virtual calendar, according to Pedro Barrera, an 8th Grade student, this is a useful space to work because of its content.

“This space helps us to make projects, which makes it very useful because it provides many tools,” Barrera said.

What’s most important is what this place can contribute to the students life, Britta McCarthy said that the MakerSpace can influence them to be creative and innovative.

“It is useful because it has the environment so that students can be more innovative and creative,” McCarthy said.