Because these challenges are deeply rooted in the museum experience and because our experience specialist team has worked so hard to prepare these areas of inspiration for your students, we ask that you stick to the created design challenges. It also allows more ease during the project window and during the project’s data collection and checkpoints.

Toolkits are premade by our youth volunteers here at Discovery Place. Those toolkits already have a set number of materials in them. Your sites were also provided with boxes of LEGO bricks to distribute along with the kits. You may add more to your kits if you find you need more. Again, please be sure additional materials are sustainable and non-consumable.

The project is originally slated for nine-weeks, which is the maximum time allotted. However, each site has the flexibility to decide what works for them. Even if the project is shorter, we just ask that you give the project enough time and space as to not lose the integrity of the project while you and your students work.

Yes. To help control the flow of consistent and accurate communication, there is a main contact for your organization and a main contact per site. If you are unsure the main contact person at your site, please ask lead person at your organization.

that you make sure these materials are sustainable and non-consumables to keep in line with the environmental principles and standards of LEGO Grant. Our goal is to create a safe, healthy, and sustainable environment for children around the world.

An active link exists on the nine-week planner your group received at professional development. Those links will also be sent in the reminder emails for checkpoints at each stage of the process.

Yes, we ask that you take advantage of any early release, in-service days, or weekends. Our museum staff has also designated extended hours on certain days of the week to accommodate field trips associated with our Discovery through Design LEGO initiative.

You will bring your students for their pre-field trips. For their post field trip, please reach out in the event you need transportation for students whose parents do not have the transportation to bring them to the museum to see the showcase.

Discovery Place has provided the project materials, a 9-week planner, and a STEM project worksheet as a foundation for this project. Because each of our partner organizations have different priorities and different amounts of time they will allot to the project, each organization will plan how they chose to execute this. They will also decide which additional supplemental materials they’d like to use at their sites as they take part in the initiative.

The showcase will be open for several weeks and opened to guests visiting our museums, meaning any museum guest can wander in and look at your students’ fabulous creations.

The digital artifact is quite the fancy way for saying “five still images and a one-minute video.” When students complete their project, they will be responsible for taking five pictures of their project and creating a one-minute video where they will, along with their group, explain their projects, challenges and learnings along the way.

You are responsible for providing us a list of students who did not provide us with a photo release form. Unfortunately, because of permissions, we won’t be allowed to release that student’s video at the display. We are creatively thinking of other ways the work of those students still makes it to the display showcase.

We are uncertain at this time.

Each group will receive a kit. Remember that students are to divided into groups of four. The number of toolkits your site receives is based on the number of students you submitted to us. We took that number, divided it by four, and provided one or two extra toolkits just in case you have uneven numbers in a couple of your groups.

The deadlines will be determined by the call after your field trips and your site plans. Because each organization has a different timeline, actual dates may differ. However, the most important deadlines are scheduling your field trips within two weeks of professional development; distributing your permission slips, photo release forms, and administering your Draw A Scientist Pre-assessment; and submitting the Week One, Week Five, and Week Nine Forms.

They are not required to speak live. Any speaking students will do will be done via video prior to the actual showcase.

It’s okay if you have one or two groups of three as you execute the project. We understand that all circumstances aren’t perfect. We’d just like for each child to have an exceptional experience.

Certainly. We want this project to have a wide reach and to include as many children as possible. We understand that language and level modifications are necessary. In fact, we encourage them.