Jennifer Bertrand, Robert Blake and Julie Coleman

The team’s innovative teaching idea, “Knights of the Makerspace,” is focused on providing the opportunity for students to collaborate while boosting their potential for creativity and innovation through the use of technology. Students involved in the program will have access to the use of a makerspace, a creative, ‘do-it-yourself’ space where students can gather to create, invent, and learn. The goal for “Knights of the Makerspace” is to create a space within the LeRoy Central School District building for fourth, fifth and sixth grade students wherein they can utilize robots, circuits, computer coding, 3D printing and more and ultimately tap into their problem solving potential. Students will have access to the makerspace during or after the school day. Additionally, the space will be used to assist in the recruiting efforts of the school’s female population, which is a priority to empower and energize students within the computer sciences field.