Foxbank Elementary Library & Makerspace


FBE Makerspace Core Beliefs:

Our Makerspace hosts collaborative projects that allow students to engage in experiences that encourage creativity, collaboration and adaptability. We’re passionate about building and facilitating these projects to help students and teachers build connections among, various subjects, grade levels and the community.

FBE Makerspace Student Goals

  1. Use a wide range of idea creation techniques – such as brainstorming

  2. Create new and worthwhile ideas – both incremental and radical concepts

  3. Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate their own ideas in order to improve and maximize creative efforts

  4. Develop, implement, and communicate new ideas to others effectively

  5. Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives; incorporate group input and feedback into the work

  6. Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real-world limits to adopting new ideas

  7. View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that creativity and innovation are a long-term, cyclical process of small successes and frequent mistakes

  8. Implement innovations

  9. Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the field in which the innovation will occur

(Worlds of Making by Laura Fleming)