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D-Lab is a creative lab workshop for Trinity students and faculty to design, dream, and discover. The space is outfitted to inspire maximum "thinking with our hands" and physical actualization of ideas, using a combination of digital and analog tools.
Design Thinking is at the core of all tinkering in our D-Lab workshops. It all starts with empathy. The iterative cycle of understanding a problem > ideation > prototyping > testing > feedback helps innovators imagine viable solutions to real-world problems.
Middle School D-Lab, Legacy Hall
In the Middle School, all 5th and 6th graders experience D-Lab as a quarterly Creative Arts class while 7th and 8th graders can choose to take "D-Lab" as an elective. All Middle School students are invited to open-format D-Lab "drop-ins" during lunch and activities periods. Robotics class, club, and team also meet in D-Lab.
Lower School D-Lab Jr., Blue House Hall
In the Lower School, students get exposure to basic fabrication and design-for-problem-solving skills at "Dive Into D-Lab" station rotations during select Extensions blocks as well as through after-school After the Bell options and Family Maker Nights.
Range of activities you will find in D-Labs:
exploring circuitry with Snap Circuits, Makey Makey, and Hummingbird microcontrollers
engineering moving contraptions with Lego Technics and K'NEX
building and programming robots with Lego WeDo 2.0 (Lower school) and Lego Mindstorms, VEX, Hummingbird and Microbit microcontrollers (Middle School)
producing stop motion or live action videos (with green screen, too!)
composing original soundtracks and recording sound effects
sewing and e-textiles
programming interactive screen experiences with Tynker and Swift Playground
making digital art with digital cameras, iPads, Photoshop, Sketchup...
building 3D models with Tynkercad, manually or using CodeBlocks, visualizing models in virtual reality with Merge Cubes
building prototypes from our extensive crafts and recycled materials
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