"Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought."

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

The Innovation & Design Lab will focus on developing student creativity, design, inventive, and technical skills. Students will be provided authentic experiences and design challenges in which they will interact with the Design Thinking process. Through authentic experiences, students will individually and collaboratively learn to:

• Define, identify, communicate, and test a problem

• Explore, empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test their innovative solutions

• Determine the importance of perspective

• Learn to be resilient learners

• Utilize the design process to enhance critical thinking and problem solving skills

• Enhance the development of modern technological skills

Students will be provided a multitude of interest-based experiences through programming, graphic design, improvisation, leadership, robotics, sculpture, woodworking, computer technology, creative writing, rocketry, flight, animation, wellness, video production, architecture, engineering, photography, ecology, and a variety of other mediums.

Safety: 

Innovation & Design has many tools and hands-on opportunities for students. Safety will always be #1, resulting in loss of privileges if a student cannot demonstrate proper responsibility and respect for their learning space. Every class experience will be different and driven based on the class's interests, needs, and mentality. 

Device Requirements: 

At RVMS, our goal is for every student to have a computer to use throughout the school day.  We believe this level of access to technology is vital in preparing students for the world in which they live.  A Bring Your Own Device Initiative encourages students to move from textbook readers to worldwide researchers, empowers students to take control of their personalized learning, and enables students to use their understanding of technology for the betterment of their education.

Please visit the RVMS Website BYOD/School Supplies page for details. 

The Innovation & Design classroom does NOT have a classroom set of computers for student use. It is strongly recommended that your student has a device for daily tasks and classwork.

Class Materials:

• Wired headphones are REQUIRED 

• 1 Subject Spiral Notebook

• Folder for handouts/worksheets 

• Writing utensil (pencil preferred) 

• Coloring Utensils