WHY STEAM?
When I was younger, I never though I'd get involved in STEM or have a career in any STEM field. For some reason, I thought that STEM was...
The College Application Process: A Reflection
The college application process asks students to really evaluate their beliefs, knowledge, and morals, and distill them down to several...


Identifying Users and Conducting Empathy Interviews #designchallenge
Alrighty, so I'm beginning my design project with the first step of the design thinking process: building empathy. Designers have to...


2018 Cooper Hewitt High School Design Challenge!!
Cooper Hewitt is working with Target to hold a national high school design competition! Participants are challenged to redesign something...


What can happen when kids are passionate about stopping deforestation
My little sister, Alexandra, came up to me earlier today and started telling me about this article about deforestation they had read in...


Design Lab Advertisement
The finished Design Lab advertisement, one of the last projects done by the class! Directed, filmed, and edited by Adam Segal and David...


Slow periods.
So.... what have I been doing for the past two weeks? It's been very slow on the design/COMMotion side. I have to gather all the loose...


What we designed/created during Design Lab
Let's organize our achievements, shall we? So during the last 3 months, the students in Design Lab have worked on open-source projects....


WINTER SHOWCASE!
Last night felt like a dream.... real, but kind of unbelievable at the same time. I feel like I'm floating in a bubble of happiness, so...


Showcase Update!
So we have two weeks before the show. Ahh craziness!! In the past few weeks, we've accomplished a lot. We have gotten all of the...