This STEAM specialty course introduces 6th - 8th grade students to beginning concepts in Digital Citizenship, Applied Digital Skills, Design & Modeling, and Engineering & Architecture. It teaches relevant, project-based, real-world, and hands-on learning experiences that introduce them to STEAM-based courses and, ultimately, guides them toward a STEAM-based mindset of “solutionary” equity-based and environmentally sustainable perspective.

Students learn to break down complex problems into simpler, solvable blocks; to model and describe what they want something to do, and to see failure as an important opportunity to learn rather than as a judgment of their ability. It also is an opportunity for students to express themselves through a mixture of science, engineering, story-telling, and art, the type of integrative skills that will be essential in the 21st century.