Applied design, skills and technologies is a part of the K-12 curriculum.   ADST is more than robots or coding or building things.  It is a mindset that encourages curiosity and exploration.  Seen in roles from engineers to artists, they solve real-world design challenges by inventing and re-inventing.

We introduced the children to a variety of materials, tools and technologies in order to encourage creative and critical thinking through design.  They generated ideas, made a product, and solved problems in their design by incorporating new ideas.  

• Kinetic Sand- create castles using this material that feels like real sand and holds it shape
• Keva Blocks – create a structure by stacking wood planks using no glue or connectors
• Snap Curcuits – build a variety of circuits that do something like turn on a light or run a fan
• Crossy Roads – develop a set of logical steps to do something
• Chatter Pix – use oral language skills to create a picture that talks
• Marble works – create a structure that uses chain reactions to move a marble through chutes
• Bee Bots – program the little robot to move in many directions  (a pre-cursor to coding)
• Tinker Toys- build structures that move
• Lego – design and build unique structures
• WeDo robot – use hardware and a software to create a robot that completes a task