Why? Jobs In Our Country! STEM- Engineering puts Science and Math to work Engineers and Scientists Create Jobs! 4% Of Our Workforce Are Scientists and Engineers They Create The Jobs for The Other 96% * ( *Rising Above The Gathering Storm: Energizing America For A Brighter Economic Future By The Committee On Science, Engineering, And Public Policy Of The National Academies) When? Started Seven Years Ago

What? Curriculum Initial Curriculum High School (Elective)  Project Lead The Way (PLTW)  Aerospace Engineering Middle School (Required & Elective)  GTT Gateway to Technology (PLTW) Elementary  Engineering Is Elementary - EIE (All students) Boston Science Museum Added Four Years Ago  High School – Wrote our own Ninth Grade Science & Engineering Curriculum (All Students) Added Two Years Ago  How To Make Most Anything (HTM(a)A) – Fab Lab (Elective)

What? – Curriculum Continued Future Curriculum Middle School – This Fall  Create & Make I (All Sixth Grade)  Create & Make II (All Seventh Grade)  Seventh & Eighth (Three Electives) High School -This Fall – (Electives)  Fundamentals Of Engineering  Bioengineering BioMimicry and Modeling Next Two Years – (Electives)  HTM(a)A Mechanical  HTM(a)A Electrical  Capstone

What? – Curriculum Continued Digital Fabrication Laboratory (Fab Lab)  Future Is A Digital World  Manufacturing Is Using Digital Control Today (Relays > PLC’S > Digital)  MIT Certified (Maker Movement)  Adult Training/Retraining (Manufacturers Want This Training)  Curriculum Elements Design – Create – Innovate (CAD – Solid Works) Fabricate – Digitally Controlled Equipment

What? Curriculum Continued After School Classes And Summer Camps Characteristics Of Our Curriculum  Project Based Learning  Science – Engineering Are Mapped To State Standards

How? School District  Faculty  Administration  School Board  Students Community Support  Parents  Engineering Advisory Board  Volunteers  Student Teachers

How? Continued Finances  Grants 3M Company, HB Fuller, Bigelow Foundation Anderson Windows, Medtronic Mahtomedi Area Educational Foundation Mahtomedi Elementary PTO Post Secondary Education Support  Iowa State University  St Thomas University  Century College  Stout State (Wisconsin)  University Of Minnesota

What’s Next?  Continue To Improve Our Curriculum  Continue To Upgrade Digital Technology (Software And Hardware)  Staff Development Visitors  School Districts  MIT  Sen. Franken and Rep. McCollum  Minnesota Department Of Education  Minnesota Department Of Economic Development  Adult Job Training (For Manufacturing) Hennepin County, Washington County, Dakota County and Scott County

FABLab Mahtomedi The FABLAB concept was founded by Neil Gershenfeld at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to provide access to manufacturing technology for students, small businesses, and budding inventors. A FABLAB (or Fabrication Laboratory) is a place where students will be able to design and make almost anything. It is a place that will empower students to produce new creations to solve current problems through experimentation, design, creativity, and innovation. Students use the latest fabrication equipment such as laser cutters, CAD programs, silhouette fabricators, 3D scanners and printers and milling machines to take their ideas from imagination to reality. Mahtomedi students are linked via Polycom to other FABLAB users around the world to facilitate the exchange of ideas and designs.

First FABLab in a public high school  MIT certified (must follow their charter)  HTM(a)A curriculum  5C’s Creativity, Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking, and Curiosity  FAB 101 –staff training opportunities  Memberships  Camps and clinics  Tinkerers of all ages welcome Additional information available on resource table

 Community approved bond  New facilities necessary to support engineering curriculum  Connected with Century’s FABLab  Engaged the community MAEF Gala Fund a Need 3M Foundation Advisory Board

Kevin Donovan- School Board Dale Johnson-Engineering Advisory Board Mary George-Engineering Program Coordinator FABLab Matt Young-FABLab Specialist /SciEng Instructor