Student Project Showcase
We encourage you to submit student projects to be showcased on our website for viewing by students, parents, and other educators around the country. This is a great opportunity to share the creative work your students are doing. The Student Project Showcase has become a valuable “project idea” resource for all SmartLab students, so keep the success stories coming.
Email your showcase nominations to Kim Butler at Creative Learning
Systems (kbutler@creativelearningsystems.com).
Send us a short
description of their project, one or more photos, and samples of their
completed work. If you have questions just call us for help at
800-458-2085.
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Collin, Troy, Thane, and Hunter are not afraid of the hard work required to win a robotics competition. If fact they have spent hundreds of hours perfecting their design and programming their robots to outperform all competitors. In a February compet...
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School: Ronan High School, Ronan, MT
Submitted: 5/23/2011
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Under the leadership of Douglas Taysom, the Tempe High School SmartLab has expanded its program to include A+ Certification training for high school students. Doug’s students are heavily engaged in a unique locally grown program called AZ StRUT, whic...
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School: Tempe High School, Tempe, AZ
Submitted: 4/7/2011
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National Underwater Robotics Challenge (NURC) - was developed in 2007 as a local (Phoenix area) challenge-based competition to build underwater Remote Operated Vehicles (ROV's). Each year, different mission scenarios are ...
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School: Desert Vista High School, Phoenix, AZ
Submitted: 4/4/2011
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This innovative team of middle school students were learning about robotics and control technology using the Fischertechnik Computing kit. They succeed in building and programming the traffic light and were looking for another challenge. Their Smar...
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School: Francis Scobee Middle School, San Antonio, TX
Submitted: 10/8/2010
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Four SmartLab students and their facilitator are heading to Canada to compete in a robotics competition at the National Society of Black Engineers conference. The students, a group of four 6th and 7th graders, designed and programmed a LEGO Mindstorm...
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School: Friendship Public Charter Schools: Chamberlain Elementary, Washington, DC
Submitted: 4/9/2010
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The SmartLab facilitator at Imagine Prep@Surprise challenged his students to do a SmartLab project around a “Pop Culture” theme. This ambitious project was done by Ryan Verpooten, an 8th grade student in the SmartLab. Ryan used a high-end 3D m...
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School: Imagine Prep, Surprise, AZ
Submitted: 4/9/2010
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Two Mid-Pacific students won top awards at the Hawaii Student Film Festival, sponsored by Hawaii Student Television, at the Dole Cannery. Ryen Lung was awarded two gold awards while Aaron Katagiri was awarded one gold award. Students in high school a...
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School: Mid-Pacific Institute – Creative Learning Plaza, HI
Submitted: 10/29/2008
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Josie and Elizabeth won a Bronze Telly award last year, and this year with Ni Nguyen on their team they won the school’s first ever Silver Telly award. The Silver award is the highest level awarded by Telly. Below we are sharing just the highlights...
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School: Hirschi High School – Creative Learning Plaza, TX
Submitted: 3/29/2008
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My name is Chris. We had 10 kids on our FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Lego League robotics team called Force Faction (team 4610). We all go to school at LaSalle Intermediate Academy in South Bend, In...
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School: LaSalle Intermediate Academy, IN
Submitted: 2/25/2008
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Elizabeth and Josephine created a documentary video about the Hirschi High School automotive teacher Dan Shores and his somewhat secret passion/hobby for cowboy artistry. Try to imagine the sheer emotional excitement experienced by these two high sc...
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School: Hirschi High School – Creative Learning Plaza, TX
Submitted: 12/23/2007
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Park Russell was a very gifted artist using traditional media and methods, but the technologies available in the SmartLab opened a cornucopia of new opportunities and possibilities to him. When I first discovered him trying to animate a lion he had ...
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School: Roosevelt High School, CO
Submitted: 12/1/2007
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Aaron wanted to learn how to edit photos using Adobe Photoshop. To make it more interesting he decided to write a story of his virtual tour to Spain. He planned out in his mind all the places he would visit, and where he would take photos of himsel...
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School: Aims Community College, WCHSDP, CO
Submitted: 12/1/2007
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Gloria Leem is an extremely talented and motivated foreign exchange student from South Korea. She is a concert pianist and really enjoyed accompanying the school choir. When she entered the SmartLab Creativity Centerm she went straight to the MIDI ...
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School: Roosevelt High School, CO
Submitted: 12/1/2007
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Have you ever wanted to make your own Star Wars movie? We did, and we learned how to do it with the tools in our SmartLab. Enjoy our movie and see if you can figure out how we did all our special effects. It’s really pretty cool. Hint: We used A...
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School: McPherson High School, KS
Submitted: 12/1/2007
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In the words of Bob and Dustin, “We are crazy and nerd-like, but we are not nerds. We just like doing things that other people think can’t be done. It’s great to have a place like our advanced SmartLab technology center to explore far-out ideas lik...
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School: Roosevelt High School, CO
Submitted: 12/1/2007
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Derek Martinez says he really enjoys the creative freedom the SmartLab offers. His Adobe Photoshop skills cause you to do a double-take, and then you wonder if he really did the work himself. Well, he certainly does his own work and could enter the j...
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School: Southwest Learning Centers, NM
Submitted: 12/1/2007
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Melissa Bass from West Jordan High School in Utah is a highly motivated young woman when it comes to film production. Her fellow students call her a protégé. When you ask to see her portfolio she brings out a 10” tall stack of DVD’s and CD’s. She lov...
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School: West Jordan High School, UT
Submitted: 12/1/2007
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Lisa Beard fell in love with Corel Painter and the Wacom graphics tablet. Once she got the hang of it, she really began to express her inner feelings with her artwork. Many of her paintings depict her perception of herself and her sister. Lisa pro...
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School: Aims Community College, WCHSDP, CO
Submitted: 12/1/2007
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The Bayer Corporation in our community was looking for a home for some of their manufacturing equipment. Our SmartLab, which is a project-based learning environment, was a perfect match. They donated two machines (without computers or control softw...
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School: Elkhart Central High School, IN
Submitted: 12/1/2007
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Kristin and Mark produced this public service claymation video to encourage the wearing of eye protection when doing chemistry lab experiments. Because Safetee Turtle did not wear his goggles, he will never need to. Don’t be like him. Wear your go...
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School: New Buffalo Middle School, MI
Submitted: 12/1/2007
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Erica, Bjorn, Nick, and Tyler teamed up to produce this clever little stop-motion video using colored paper rather than using clay that is traditionally used to do claymation. They found that paper is much cleaner to work with and yet you can still ...
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School: Mountain View High School, AZ
Submitted: 12/1/2007
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Roger wanted a challenge, something out of the ordinary. He had an interest in robotics and programming so he chose to attempt something that no one else had done. His project was to build a set of Fischertechnik carnival rides that he would then con...
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School: Roosevelt High School, CO
Submitted: 12/1/2007
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A couple years ago, Scott Melanson, the facilitator of the Rocky Heights Middle School SmartLab, and another teacher, decided to start an after-school video club. It became so popular that they decided to start a live news broadcast. While most schoo...
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School: Rocky Heights Middle School, CO
Submitted: 12/1/2007
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Eric Padilla had exceptional artistic ability for sketching cartoon characters, but he was very reluctant to make the transition to computer graphics. Near the end of the semester in the SmartLab he finally gave it a try. After a few days he began ...
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School: Aims Community College, WCHSDP, CO
Submitted: 12/1/2007
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At first Matt was a little shy about sharing his artistic talents, but with a little encouragement he began to open up. This sample of his work was created by scanning a pencil sketch of his dragon, then adding color in Photoshop. A simple approach...
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School: Aims Community College, WCHSDP, CO
Submitted: 12/1/2007
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When Alex and Keelan rotated to the pneumatics station, they put their own spin on things. Alex was really more interested in video editing than he was pneumatic circuitry, so he approached Mr. Ocharzak with the idea of making a pneumatics video. The...
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School: Linden Middle School., MI
Submitted: 12/1/2007
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The city of Albuquerque New Mexico sponsors a video contest each year to promote pride in keeping their city clean and beautiful. Andrew and Eric won $250 for third place entry in last year’s contest. Making public service announcements is a great ...
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School: Creative Ed. Prep Institute #1, NM
Submitted: 12/1/2007
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Taylor and I worked together to produce this clever little stop-motion video using colored clay to create our characters. We decided we wanted our movie to teach a moral, so we used our school mascot as a super-hero for our main character. Once we ...
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School: Loving High School, NM
Submitted: 12/1/2007
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Matthew and Anthony prefer the freedom to engineer their own LEGO inventions over building something from a project booklet. They enjoy the challenges and rewards of using their own creative minds to produce some pretty amazing inventions. This sty...
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School: Terry Middle School, TX
Submitted: 12/1/2007
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During Bailey’s first semester in the SmartLab she discovered a liking for Adobe Photoshop. During her second semester she decided to teach herself more Photoshop skills. Her primary source of instruction was an endless supply of online tutorials. ...
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School: Roosevelt High School, CO
Submitted: 12/1/2007
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Julie and Sarah are definitely camera shy as you will see in their mostly silent video, but their creative engineering, problem-solving, and programming skills are truly outstanding. They invented a walking-talking dog using Fischertechnik structura...
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School: Mountain View High School, CO
Submitted: 12/1/2007
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Most people think you have to you have to have really professional equipment and expensive props to make a successful movie, but we got a kick out of using really simple props with a super funny idea. The movie clip we are sharing was part of a vide...
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School: Mountain View High School, CO
Submitted: 12/1/2007
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We have a student named Roberto Ortega from Venezuela who just completed a very creative project in our Roosevelt HS TechLab in Johnstown Colorado. Inspired by the top-selling novel, "The Da Vinci Code", Roberto Ortega decided to design and build his...
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School: Roosevelt HS, Johnstown, CO
Submitted: 4/24/2007
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The ambitious team of students who dreamed this project up was part of a group of University Lab School students (a private charter high school) who were using the Aims Community College SmartLab facility in Greeley, Colorado to enhance their high sc...
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School: University Lab School, CO
Submitted: 4/24/2007
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