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Kindergarten - Grade 9 in Southborough, MA

Innovation Saturdays at Fay School

Join us for an Innovation Saturday on February 28!

Our hands-on workshops, designed for children ages 5-12, are a great way to learn more about engineering, creativity, and design. All workshops are taught by Fay faculty on the Fay School campus in Southborough. These courses are free, but advance registration is required and space is limited.

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Saturday, February 28, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

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  • Home Sweet Home: A Marshmallow Igloo Design Challenge

    You’ve seen pictures of ice igloos: now’s your chance to build one with marshmallows! In this workshop, you’ll learn about real igloo design and how igloo builders stack their materials for maximum structural stability. You’ll learn about how igloos trap heat and why their unique circular shape does more than make it look “cool” (pun intended!) Bring your problem solving skills as we build, test, and learn!

    Instructor: Katie Buteau, Lower School Teacher
    For Ages 9-12
    Limited to 10 Students

  • Designing is for the Birds

    Join us for some bird-related engineering and design challenges as we read Michael Garland's Birds Make Nests and put our design thinking skills to work to design and build our own birds’ nests. Through this process, we’ll learn about some of the amazing ways that animals in nature put design principles into practice. We’ll work with a range of tools and art supplies to create projects that you’ll take home after a morning of creativity and fun!  
     
    Instructor: Willa Gustavson, Second Grade Teacher
    For Ages 5-8
    Limited to 10 Students (Workshop Full)

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Parking and Details

Please park in Harlow Circle, which can be accessed via Fay School's East Entrance. Click here for directions to the East Entrance, located at 23 Middle Road in Southborough, MA. 
 
Check-in will take place inside Fay's Root Academic Building at the Center for Creativity & Design. Signs will be placed on campus to direct you to the check-in area. Please arrive 10 minutes before the workshop's scheduled start time. Click here for a campus map.

After check-in, the workshop instructors will take children and their parents/guardians to the classroom where the workshop will take place. Parents/guardians will then be dismissed, but will return to the classroom at the conclusion of the workshop to pick their child up.
Meet Our Faculty
Katie Buteau joined the Fay community as a third grade teacher in August of 2016. She earned her master’s degree in Elementary Education at Lesley University while simultaneously student teaching at the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School. In addition to teaching, Katie enjoys running, baking, and spending time with her daughters, Nell and Evie, and her husband, Joe, who teaches in Fay's Upper School!
Willa Gustavson joined Fay in 2022 as a second grade teacher and has been a member of the FaySummer camp staff since 2013. Willa holds a B.A in English with a concentration in English and French literature from Stanford University and a M.S. in elementary education with a concentration in elementary teaching from Northwestern University. 
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