Makerspace
Whether it’s building self-driving cars, prototyping new inventions, or reproducing ancient forms of art, UPrep students make their ideas come to life in our Makerspace.
Students access this fabrication and design facility for class projects, co-curricular clubs, passion projects and skill-building workshops, gaining invaluable experience in design, engineering, electronics, and digital arts.
The Makerspace is available for use before and after school, and during Community Time and Office Hours, providing ample time for students to use a wide range of tools and materials from sewing to soldering. They can bring in projects from home, build a project with faculty coaching, or join one of many clubs where beginners and experienced students alike can build and learn new skills with their peers.
Our faculty use the Makerspace and its resources to create engineering, design, and creative projects in the classroom. Previous examples include a science class building robotic arms to mimic the operation of a human arm, chemistry students inventing new products to heat or cool based on chemical reactions, and an English class using Tinkercad to create symbolic representations of characters from their readings. In addition to whole-class projects, students can call upon the Makerspace to get tools, coaching, or materials for their projects in any class.
Makerspace Clubs
Browse our current/recent club offerings below. Clubs change from year to year based on student interest.
A group of Upper School students work together to construct a robot in the Makerspace.
In the makerspace, our students learn to use the tools and materials they need to design and engineer their world.
The Makerspace supports students in becoming self-directed, empowered creators, from building VR sculptures to 3D-printing designs.