CCI (Create, Collaborate, Innovate) is a STEAM class that provides our students with the opportunity to imagine, design, and create solutions to small, personally meaningful problems in a hands-on, collaborative, and creative way. Team taught by Lower School science, art, and technology faculty, the course is an active, fully integrative STEAM experience. In the fall, the focus is on helping students build various tinkering/making/prototyping skills, such as woodworking, building with cardboard, 3D design and printing, and working with electric circuits. In the spring, each student will develop, present, and execute a project—something she would like to design and create or improve. Students will document their process, participate in peer- and self-review, collaborate to share ideas and to develop solutions and develop resiliency and problem-solving skills as they experience the productive process of iteration.