STEAMworks Design Lab Opens!

10/23/2017

Headmaster Rick Bryan was pleased to officially open STEAMworks, a gift from Jerome A. Weinberger '46 and family, on October 20, 2017. Jerry Weinberger's children, Gail Stein and Neil Weinberger '79, along with their children, were on hand to welcome more than 60 guests to the new innovation lab, a state-of-the-art space unlike anything found at any other independent school in the country.

Guests at the opening ceremony included friends of Jerry's from his school days (alumni from the classes of '45, '46, and '47), Shaker campus faculty and staff, science and technology faculty from the upper school, and members of the Board of Trustees.

The boys at the Shaker campus have eagerly been anticipating the opening of STEAMworks, which provides boys with the tools, technology, and space to create anything they can dream up. Some of the notable equipment in the room includes a laser cutter and engraver, filament and resin-based 3D printers, "littleBits"--electronic building blocks for prototyping hardware, digital video and photography equipment, computers for CAD, and even sewing machines!

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- Lower School Director Gail Stein and Neil Weinberger '79 cut the ribbon, officially opening STEAMworks.
- STEAMworks Director Bob Newill helped design the space as well as a complementary curriculum. Teachers will also be able to use the lab to enrich their own lesson plans.
- Peter Sweeney, upper school computer science teacher and Michael S. Klein '74 Chairholder in Computer Science, checks out the new computers.
- STEAMworks logo on the door.
- STEAMworks Director Bob Newill chats with lower school art teacher Pam Spremulli and upper school arts chairperson Michael Starinsky while guests enjoy the new space.
- Life Trustee Dan Moore '59 and his wife, Marge Moore (former upper school science lab manager) walk past the picture window looking into STEAMworks.
- The tables inside STEAMworks can be raised and lowered for boys of all ages, and reconfigured for different projects. Here, they're displaying the "littleBits" electronic building blocks and one of the lab's sewing machines.
- Rev. Judith Brown Bryan, lower school science teacher and McLaughlin Chairholder in Science Elizabeth Spector, school nurse Tish Perin, and lower school music teacher Amanda Matthews at the reception.
- Hand tools on one of the walls of STEAMworks wait for boys to come and create.