The School Buzz: D-60 elementary school debuts new innovation lab next week
Josh Helmuth
Risley International Academy of Innovation will start the new school year with some serious new “rizz.”
The D-60 elementary school will cut the ribbon on a federally funded new innovation lab next week when students start the fall semester. Staff says it’s where project-based learning will come to life.
Creative design? Students can make professional posters and t-shirts.
Computers and video games? Students will program and code.
Travel? Students will have access to virtual reality.
Drew Hirshon works at the school. He says this lab will be a jump-start toward so many careers.
“We’re incorporating some engineering pathways for them, robotics, designing and modeling, there are some opportunities for app creation, so the cyber security side. I mean really giving students gateways to different career paths at the middle school level. So when they do get to high school they’ve been exposed. They’re ready,” he said.
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