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Kindergarten - Grade 9 in Southborough, MA

Innovation Saturdays at Fay School

Join us for an Innovation Saturday on February 22!

Our hands-on workshops, designed for children ages 6-12, 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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The workshops for February 22 are now full. To join the waitlist for a workshop, please email Nicole Casey at ncasey@fayschool.org.

Saturday, February 22, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

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  • Designing 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 6-9
    Limited to 10 students (Workshop Full)

  • Spacesuit Design Challenge

    Get ready, NASA….Fay’s designers are on the job! Your mission is to design a spacesuit that can help maintain the body temperature of an astronaut in the extreme heat and cold of outer space. You’ll be using water-filled “Space Worms” as test subjects that mimic the water composition of the adult human body. Build a budget, design and test your spacesuit, and get ready for a hands-on experience that’s out of this world!

    Instructor: Adel Collins, Lower School Science Teacher
    For ages 9-12
    Limited to 10 students (Workshop Cancelled)

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 Primary School building. 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 to the classroom where the workshop will take place. Parents will then be dismissed, but will return to the classroom at the conclusion of the workshop to pick their child up.
Meet Our Faculty
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. 
Adel Collins is a Lower School science teacher and joined Fay in 2003. While her love of new experiences has taken her to over forty different countries, she felt very much at home when she joined the Fay community with its students and faculty from around the world. At Fay, Adel has taught Earth Science, Life Science, Biology, and Diagnosing the Modern World. She enjoys bringing her global perspective and her background in environmental law into the classroom.
 
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