Creative Learning Spaces: The STEAM Lab

When Veritas students return to campus for the 2023-2024 Academic Year, they will find a new and remodeled STEAM Lab awaiting.

As the project that was chosen to be funded by the Annual Auction & Gala for the 2022-2023 Academic Year, the STEAM Lab will provide Veritas students with the opportunity to exercise their critical thinking skills in conjunction with utilizing their creativity as they explore God's created world around them. Combined with a new curriculum, STEAM classes at Veritas are sure to be a hit.

The Project Lead the Way (PLTW) curriculum will offer Veritas students educational opportunities in interdisciplinary, evidence-based activities and projects. They will be engaged in problem-solving, critical thinking, design thinking, and computation thinking. Additionally, Veritas students will be immersed in hands-on activities and projects that build skills across computer science, engineering, biomedical science, and more. The curriculum is centered around various modules covering structure and function, stability and motion, energy and collisions, and coding and computational thinking. The various activities in which students will be engaging in include designing and building structures, creating simple machines, exploring the properties of matter, and coding animations and games.

The STEAM Lab also received new equipment to support the creative learning that will take place within the space. These include maker space tables which provide various types of mobility for flexible working areas to promote teamwork and enhanced group working environments.

Lastly, technological enhancements were also a part of the STEAM Lab renovation. This includes a brand-new set of laptops for students to utilize for projects involving design, automation, coding, and robotics. This will be coupled with our current inventory of two 3D printers, which will help our students translate their digital creations into tangible models. Lastly, students will surely notice the brand-new 86" interactive television on the front wall of the STEAM Lab. This will further enhance learning and creativity for Veritas students with the ability to interact with digital components of their learning.