With over 3,000 square feet of inspiring makerspace for collaboration and creation, the Hub is the epicenter of making, engineering, and design at our Los Gatos campus. The Hub enables digital music and podcast production, green screen video, digital photography editing, drawing, painting and planning designs, rapid prototyping, sewing, embroidering, woodworking, and digital fabrication, including acrylic cutters, laser cutters, and 3D printers. The barn-like structure provides ample spill-out space for large-scale creation, with a variety of workspaces and room for students to tinker, explore, innovate, and problem-solve.
Students in late elementary through middle school build skills in basic woodworking, the Design Process, and digital fabrication. They can elect to join clubs and to use the Hub afterschool or at lunchtime to further their projects and collaborate with experts and peers. In Middle School, all students take a sampler course in the Hub spaces designed to expose them to a variety of processes and mediums in Design & Making that may inform their selection of electives in the older middle grades. Have you ever wanted to code your own arcade game? Learn to use a 3-D printer? Design and sew your own stuffed animal or a patch for your backpack? Code a robot?
Each year in late Elementary through Middle School, students have opportunities to grow their skills and display their creations for celebration (and sometimes for sale) at community events. They can put their skills to use for community events and in support of productions like our Spring Musical, the Talent Show, Grandparent & Special Friends’ Day, Halloween, weekly Flag Assemblies and more.