Inventor’s Lab: STEM & Design
Bring your ideas to life
Inventor’s Lab is designed to help learners progress from exploration and guided learning to independent creation and collaboration. Through our Core Curriculum, students build a foundation in engineering, programming, and STEM concepts that empowers them to take a project from initial idea to final creation.
Program Phases
Phase 1: Explore
Students discover how technology, science, and engineering shape the world around them through observation, experimentation, and hands-on activities.
Examples may include:
Basic Circuits
Robotics Demonstrations
Microscopy Investigations
Astronomy Observations
Design Challenges
Phase 2: Learn
Students develop foundational skills in electronics, mechanical design, and programming.
Core concepts may be explored through a variety of pathways, including traditional engineering projects, robotics activities, scientific investigations, or creative BLEND projects that combine engineering with art and other interests.
Phase 3: Build
Students begin applying their skills through guided projects that combine multiple engineering disciplines.
Projects become increasingly open-ended as learners gain confidence and experience.
Phase 4: Create
Students are encouraged to pursue independent projects based on their own interests, ideas, and goals.
The objective is no longer simply to complete a project, but to design and build something original.
Phase 5: Collaborate and Innovate
Students may participate in collaborative projects, community showcases, school events, science fairs, engineering challenges, and robotics competitions.
By this stage, learners have developed the skills necessary to contribute to larger projects while continuing to explore their own creative ideas.
Example Projects Gallery
Every learner’s journey is different. Some projects focus on electronics and programming, while others combine engineering with science, art, design, or community involvement.
Pathfinder
Pathfinder is an autonomous robot that makes its own decisions! Using a development board and ultrasonic sensor, it detects obstacles, scans left and right, and chooses the direction with more open space.
Created by Josie and Maor.
Heart Spark
Using a 555 timer, decade counter, LEDs, and a custom-cut wooden heart, this project transforms a simple electronic circuit into a glowing moving display. Each stage of the counter activates a different section of LEDs, creating the chasing effect.
Created by Sophia
Frostlight
Where art meets electronics! A wooden snowflake becomes a glowing Christmas ornament with six alternating blue and white LEDs. A development board uses PWM to create a smooth fading effect, while the snowflake can be painted and customized with the student’s own artistic design.
Created by Xavier
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