Lab School Spotlight: Makerspace in Action
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
3:00 PM
Zoom Webinar
Featured Speaker: Kaitlyn McCoy, Assistant Director, ODU Center for Educational Innovation and Opportunity
This session will highlight how makerspaces are more than rooms filled with tools. They are learning environments that support creativity, collaboration, confidence, experimentation, and real-world problem solving.
Participants will hear how the Innovation Lab at the ODU Center for Educational Innovation and Opportunity serves as a hands-on hub for:
- Extending lab school work through STEM
- Fabrication
- Design thinking
- Robotics
- Coding
- Community-connected learning experiences
The conversation will also connect directly to how makerspace practices are showing up in lab schools, including how students:
- Engage in open-ended challenges
- Prototype solutions
- Learn from failure
- Build the confidence to see themselves as innovators
