{"id":14904,"date":"2019-02-01T06:32:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=14904"},"modified":"2019-02-01T07:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T15:22:47","slug":"rose-drive-roadrunners-are-makers-dreamers-and-thinkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=14904","title":{"rendered":"Rose Drive Roadrunners are makers, dreamers, and thinkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This school year, Rose Drive Elementary School\u00a0created a Makerspace &amp; STEM Club in order to expose upper grade students to the design thinking process and to practice hands-on learning focused on student centered inquiry.\u00a0Fifth grade teacher, Mike Fredstrom, leads\u00a0the\u00a0club after school.<\/p>\n<p>Students have had the opportunity to create an upcycled robot, a rocket, a paper bridge, and multiple podcast recordings, as well as learn about coding utilizing Spheros.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, students were also able to interview a civil engineer and learn real world applications in constructing bridges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our Makerspace lab is a great place where young students have an opportunity to explore their own interests, learn to use tools and materials, both physical and virtual and develop creative projects,&#8221; shared Kathleen\u00a0Escaleras-Nappi, the school&#8217;s principal. &#8220;Roadrunners are makers, dreamers and thinkers, and we learn by doing!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This school year, Rose Drive Elementary School\u00a0created a Makerspace &amp; STEM Club in order to expose upper grade students to the design thinking process and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1168],"tags":[1955,2014,1743,1742,243,268],"class_list":["post-14904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elementary-school","tag-academics","tag-maker-space","tag-roadrunners","tag-rose-drive","tag-rose-drive-elementary-school","tag-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}