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My kids' school, to some degree, solved this with "Creativity Fairs". You want to design and sew a dress? Cool. You want to scale up Thor's hammer from actio
by garrickvanburen 11y ago
My kids' school, to some degree, solved this with "Creativity Fairs".
You want to design and sew a dress? Cool.
You want to scale up Thor's hammer from action figure size to your size? Cool.
You want to recreate Fallingwater in SketchUp? Cool.
There were even a few more traditionally science-y projects.
As long as it doesn't include food or live animals - you're cool.
- coreyp_1 11y agoI love this idea! I absolutely hated science fairs growing up, and I can remember every one of them as an embarrassment.
- asimuvPR 11y agoMy niece's school did that too. It was unexpected but absolutely enjoyable. They had the older grades build fake companies around made up science-y products. The aim was to get people to "buy" the product by pitching it. To be honest, some of the products reminded me of some startups mentioned in HN. One kid even had a food delivery service with drones... My niece's grade go to build rovers and satellites. She built hers to something between voyager and sputnik. It even had "engines" that would light up (LEDs). Really fun event without the pressure of trying to look smart.