Our commitment to maker learning is rooted in the work of our Design & Build team's participation, twelve years ago, in maker fairs at the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum. 

It wasn’t until we participated in a four day “Maker Bootcamp” workshop for educators at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh in the summer of 2016 that our commitment to create our makerspace grew.  By the summer of 2017 our school community came together to build our makerspace. The project brought the talents and donations of our collective community (parents, businesses, boy scouts, teachers and students) to design and build the space in a matter of months.  

Once built, our momentum continued and resources grew as we moved through the 2019-2020 school year.  It was in this school year that our programming was interrupted by the Covid pandemic.  As we awakened from the pandemic, we realized that our families were energized to be part of our school more than ever.  Realizing their value, we designed three workshops to empower them to become coaches trained in the Principles of Making and the engineering process to support and enhance learning opportunities for our students.