Angela in her classroom, a place it's clear she loves.
If there is one world to describe Angela Hancock it would be happy, and "Happy!" was the first thing she said in reflection on how she felt about the EC3 Design Space. Angela has held many hats at OES, returning to her love of Science and Middle School she enlivens and excites 7th graders about the world they live in.
Goals she holds for the future of her 7th grade curriculum include Citizen Science & the Environment, and the Engineering Design of the Natural World. She hopes to utilize the amazing environmental resources we have here on the OES campus and help students understand everything from how a bird designs a nest, to how a spiders web holds it's structure. These animals are engineers! We spent a great deal of time talking about potential technological sensors systems that could be set up in the wetlands, so that students could collect real time data from the environment.... and while you can of course buy such systems-- she wants her students to make them! (EC3 Design for sure!) She wants to foster a collaboration between students, and even more importantly a collaboration of those students and the immediate natural world they live in. What makes such a task even more amazing is the hope and intent to design sensor systems that are created to blend in and benefit the ecosystem in which they live. Engineering and Design at it's greatest.
We spoke of pie in the sky ideas like artists who use animals to help them create their work, and imagining ways in which design, engineering, and environmentalism could be joined to make the world a better place. If only we could add hours into the day, I imagine Angela's enthusiasm and imagination would carry us to new and colossal heights.
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