ATC brings Einstein Project STEM Lab to Wrightstown | Wrightstown Area Spirit

By Brian Roebke
Editor

Serving more than 5 million electric consumers, ATC’s Mobile Design Lab helps kids curb “the summer slide” where they traditionally lose months-worth of knowledge during summer break.

She was in Wrightstown with the Einstein Project’s Sandbox Mobile Design Lab for Wisconsin children. The free program is designed to introduce STEM enthusiasts to hands-on programs in computer science including 3D printing, laser cutting and coding.

McFarlin and her young assistants travel through Northeast Wisconsin during the summer to schools, parks, libraries, camps, and special events doing STEM programming for youth and families. Einstein also has a staff that works through the school year.

During the school year, she teaches third and fourth grade at Aldo Leopold Community School, which is an experiential school in Green Bay.
“Our philosophy is that you can learn much more by doing than by just reading is out of a book or hearing it in a lecture,” she said.
In its inaugural year, the Mobile Design Lab, in partnership with ATC, accelerated learning for about 3,000 Wisconsin children with nearly 80 hands-on programs.

The project started at the Makerspace, which is located on the campus of UW-Green Bay inside the Stem Innovation Building.

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