Grade 7 Students Help Rising Sixth Graders Navigate Middle School
If I only knew then what I know now… Grade 7 students are giving next year’s incoming Grade 6 students the knowledge they wish they had as new middle schoolers with virtual tours they created of the Secondary building.
IPA Students Use Design Thinking to Create Sustainable Furniture
Secondary students in Design Thinking are giving the Eames lounge chair a run for its money. Using design thinking and Dieter Ram’s 10 principles of good design, the students ideated, designed, prototyped, and construct cardboard chairs for one of their design projects.
Design Thinkers Have Space to Create in New Makerspaces
ISLAND PACIFIC ACADEMY students have two new makerspaces on campus thanks to a $50,000 grant from the James & Abigail Campbell Family Foundation awarded during the 2021-2022 school year.
Summer Enrichment – Design Thinking a Better Assembly
ISLAND PACIFIC ACADEMY’s Summer Enrichment students in Design Thinking spent three weeks creating solutions-based projects to improve the Secondary school’s assembly experience to help IPA’s Student Activities Coordinator, Ruby May Fernandez.
Design Tech Students Create Quilt for The Patchwork Healing Blanket Project
ISLAND PACIFIC ACADEMY’s Grade 6 Design Tech students used design thinking to address important issues relating to social and environmental justice culminating in a class quilt they contributed to the international textile art project, “The Patchwork Healing Blanket: Piece-by-Piece and Country-by-Country.”