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Making things fly is only one of the learning experience for these middle school students
inside the brand-new Makerspace at Nativity Academy at St. Boniface. A ceremony to officially
open the Makerspace featured the folks who helped build it from the University of Louisville
Speed School of Engineering. -By providing this space we're just hoping
to ignite a passion in these kids so they'll see and they'll learn engineering and realize
how fun it can actually be. This is the second hands-on Makerspace UofL
has built, complete with 3D printers, a drill press, tech stations and robotics at a Louisville
school where most of the students come from low-income families.
-I think they're putting faith in kids here, they're getting our hopes up and they want
to give us more dreams than what we already have.
-We're trying to create a cutting-edge education for families who demonstrate financial need
but otherwise won't have the resources to be available. This is going to give the Science-Technology-Engineering-Math
phase, it's really going to challenge our kids to become those creative thinkers.
-I just think about making stuff to help kids and like, make video games and stuff like
that. "And this might help you do that." Yeah! This is one of dozens of community outreach
programs the Speed School has each year, bringing engineering to thousands of area
students. In the case of Nativity's 88 students, they not only get a hands-on experience building
things and figuring out how to put things together, they'll be getting help from UofL
engineering students. -We're going in, building the space, and then
getting our engineering students to come down here in the afternoon and help mentor these
kids so they can see what it's like to be an engineering student and set high goals,
and hopefully they'll end up at Speed School or some other engineering school.