Spirit Week Maker Lab Competition

This week welcomed in a new addition to Spirit Week - the Spirit Week Maker Lab Competition! The focus was on Building Spirit and students could use anything in the Maker Lab to build the most creative and functional design representative of their class’ school spirit. The prize - 50 Spirit Week points to the winning class!

The lab area of the LLC transformed to accommodate each class’ work table and Maker Lab equipment was available for use on the center tables.

Captains for each class led the effort by encouraging participation, leading brainstorm sessions, and ensuring team members were aware of the design strategy day by day.

The final designs were innovative and clever. Here they are:

Class of 2017 - A circus complete with theme music played by a student using the Makey Makey, crocheted hearts, 3D designed and printed circus characters including an elephant and clown, a lego building, and a sewn pillow with "Cirque du Sophs" embroidered on the front. 

Class of 2016 - A video game programmed by students that begins on an airplane and then takes the player on a journey through each class year’s theme.

Class of 2015 - A twisting zombie robot programmed with the arduino, built using legos, and complete with red LED sewn-in eyes made possible by the lilipad.

 

 

Class of 2018 - a lego castle.

At 3pm on Thursday, the panel of judges (thank you Ms. Maniscalco, Mr. Shelley, Coach Greenbaum, and Mr. Tobler!!) listened to each class explain their design and afterwards selected the winner. 

And the winner was…. Class of 2017 followed by the classes of 2016, 2015 and 2018. Congratulations sophomores and great job to all participants!