After looking at a 360-degree video of a glow worm cave and at the work of artist Tara Donovan, the students collectively made a cup cave, complete with embedded LED lights. 

One of our goals with PreVu is to simply expose the kids to certain tools and ways of thinking, and to foster a can-do attitude about building in real life what they have in their imaginations.  This isn't always simple, since they can't quite use the power saw or model something in Rhino to send to the laser cutter. But sometimes they make some leaps. During session 5, Ben decided that he wanted to use toy motors. We taught him to solder so that his connections from the motor to the battery would hold. Suddenly, a whole lot of kids were interested in motors and soldering, and we saw an amazing passage of knowledge: kids teaching other kids what they had just learned minutes before.

I expect we'll see a lot of moving parts next week!

The studio is always busy during PreVu. Some kids are very active, making several individual projects, while others really enjoy working  on the collaborative project or even just watching how their fellow students are using materials and coming up with ideas. We find tremendous value in all of these modes of being in the studio, and hope that each kid is finding some design  inspiration each week.