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Ready, Set, Create: A Maker Space Lab

ENG-90019

Unleash Your Inner Inventor in a Makerspace Lab

 

A makerspace is a place where people get together to tinker, ponder and create. In our Makerspace Lab, students will tackle a variety of engineering challenges and develop their own innovation or invention.

Using a variety of everyday materials, students will take on challenges such as “create a fall-proof skateboard” or “create an all-weather hat.” Art, science and engineering will come into play as students develop innovative solutions. As a final project, students will come up with an innovation or invention of their own. They will gain experience in product design, technical writing and art design as they develop their creations. Then they will present their inventions to a panel of classmates in a format similar to the television show “Shark Tank.”

What You Will Learn

 

Tackle a variety of engineering challenges and develop your own innovation or invention.

  • Learn to identify multiple solutions to an engineering challenge.
  • Strengthen your skills in problem-solving and critical thinking.
  • Research innovations and inventions to discover how scientists work.
  • Practice product design, technical writing and art design.
  • Create your own innovation and present it to a panel of students for approval.

Return to the Sally Ride Science Junior Academy website here.

Course Information

1.50 units
TBD

Course sessions

Please contact the Pre-College Programs department at 858-534-0804 or precollege@ucsd.edu for information about this course and upcoming sections.