Perhaps the most powerful components of the Arts in Engineering experience are the
co-creative methods used to assist teachers and staff in the creation of a program that fits their needs. Our team facilitates training with the expectation that
most schools/classrooms already have an abundance of materials that are in the everyday environment and can be used to form the activities for the creative engineering activities. Therefore, any teacher or school developing their K-5 STEM program according to our methods
do not need to invest large sums of funding for expensive kits and materials commonly acquired. This model takes advantage of materials that are most likely already present in the classrooms and storage rooms of the school.
In the event schools have budgets to support STEM education, we recommend that minimal amounts of money be allocated, as the important learning does not come from expensive products, but from using the Process Pathway to resolve authentic problems using materials that are naturally and readily available to the classroom.
