Hamden Hall Country Day School
Educating Students in PreSchool through Grade 12
Educating Students in PreSchool through Grade 12
Makerspace Design Lab
Technical Education
The Middle School Technology and Design portion of the curriculum allows Middle Schoolers to experience and learn certain life skills while delving into the design equipment in our MakerSpace Lab and the technology found in our Swain Library and Barbara Olin Taylor Learning Commons.
The Upper School Engineering and Design class gives students the opportunity to design and produce creative projects. The course focuses on the design process, guiding students through ideation, concept development, iteration, and evaluation along with developing key design, prototyping, and fabrication skills.
The Upper School Engineering and Design class gives students the opportunity to design and produce creative projects. The course focuses on the design process, guiding students through ideation, concept development, iteration, and evaluation along with developing key design, prototyping, and fabrication skills.
MakerSpace Projects
Upper School projects included a DIY plant and flower press where students used their carpentry skills to build a functional device that presses/dries plants or flowers using simple wooden framing, dowel joints, and fasteners.
Middle School projects include DIY sweatshirts on Cricut design space using Hamden Hall logos and designs only. Once the designs were complete, the student cut them using heat transfer vinyl and weeded the vinyl. They centered the design and used a heat press to activate the vinyl to adhere to the sweatshirt before peeling off the plastic.
Middle School projects include DIY sweatshirts on Cricut design space using Hamden Hall logos and designs only. Once the designs were complete, the student cut them using heat transfer vinyl and weeded the vinyl. They centered the design and used a heat press to activate the vinyl to adhere to the sweatshirt before peeling off the plastic.
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From Head of School Bob Izzo
"Making is so complementary to the foundation we build in our students at Hamden Hall as it fosters innovation, resourcefulness, and motivation. It requires collaboration, teamwork, curiosity, and social responsibility – all traits that are instilled in students via the Hamden Hall experience. The MakerSpace Design Lab will allow our students to reach new goals and successes in a variety of disciplines as they share knowledge and work together to see their visions come to fruition."
Fostering Creativity Across the Curriculum
Our MakerSpace Design Lab fosters creativity, innovation, resourcefulness, and motivation as it provides students an opportunity to create, design, build, and tinker with all varieties of materials and resources. Students at all levels are introduced to our MakerSpace Design Lab in order to augment project-based learning. It requires collaboration, teamwork, and curiosity - all traits that are installed in students via the Hamden Hall Experience.
MakerSpace Design Lab offers workstations, mill-working equipment, table saw, scroll saw, band saw, and compound miter saw, computers loaded with CAD software and 3D design programs, CNC router - a computer-navigated cutting tool, and 3D printers.
MakerSpace Design Lab offers workstations, mill-working equipment, table saw, scroll saw, band saw, and compound miter saw, computers loaded with CAD software and 3D design programs, CNC router - a computer-navigated cutting tool, and 3D printers.
1108 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, Connecticut 06517
Phone: 203-752-2600
Fax: 203-752-2651
admissions@hamdenhall.org
Hamden, Connecticut 06517
Phone: 203-752-2600
Fax: 203-752-2651
admissions@hamdenhall.org
Hamden Hall Country Day School, located less than two miles from Yale University, is one of the best private schools in Connecticut to enroll elementary, middle, and high school students. Our nurturing and inclusive community provides a dynamic learning environment that promotes academic excellence by understanding each child and fostering their individual growth.
