An Invitation to Innovate THE EIGHTH GRADE CAPSTONE LAB
H A N N A H S P E N T N I N E M O N T H S building a
gasoline powered go-kart from scratch. Maria spent hundreds of hours painstakingly constructing a glass mosaic. Jack sourced dozens of parts, interviewed a flight expert, and built a working drone. Corbin learned the intricacies of “warp and weave” and custom-strung a championship lacrosse stick. Marc made a series of instructional cooking videos that nearly went viral on YouTube. What do they all have in common? The Capstone Lab at The Peck School. The Capstone Lab asks a fascinating question—if you give an eighth grader a chance to design a class, something individually meaningful and big enough to stretch across a year, what would happen? How would it turn out? “The Capstone Lab is an invitation, and it is an invitation kids don’t often have, to try to articulate what they are excited about,” explained Chris Weaver, Peck’s Director of Curriculum and Faculty Development. “And it’s also a chance to go beyond
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