At William Mason Cooper Elementary Magnet School
for Technology
, our students work hard to reach their
personal and academic goals.
In the Tech Lab, students
are taught skills that they can use to solve problems like engineers.
The Children's Engineering program encourages them to use their creativity along with science, math, social studies and language arts skills to complete design challenges. After identifying a problem, students brain-
storm possible solutions. Next, students plan how to
use the available materials to create their design.
Once their design is built, it is tested. Our students use
higher order thinking skills to evaluate how well their
design works. Improvements are made and then
retested. This process concludes with written and oral
reports. They develop their communication skills by participating in discussions and sharing what they discovered when working through a challenge.
