STEM School Chattanooga Fab Lab
9-12
STEM School Chattanooga’s VW eLab serves STEM III juniors who collaborate with local businesses to solve real-world problems that impact their community.
Lab description
Grade Levels:
VW eLab Specialist
Anna Wineland
wineland@anna@hcde.org
Anna Wineland is a VW eLab Specialist and STEM educator at STEM School Chattanooga. She engages students in engineering, digital fabrication, and authentic industry projects that build collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and career-ready skills.
Impact
The STEM School VW eLab empowers students to design solutions for real challenges from partners such as EPB, the Tennessee Aquarium, and Chattanooga Zoo. Students use CAD, 3D printers, laser cutters, and other fabrication tools to build and test prototypes while developing creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and career-ready skills.
Project Highlights
Project highlights include creating EPB’s interactive holiday window display with digital fabrication, motion, and lights; developing GoTalk communication supports and accessible games for children at Siskin Children’s Institute; and partnering with Chattanooga Design Studio to redesign storefronts for downtown businesses and strengthen the urban environment.
