Good Afternoon MCS Community!

On Friday night, March 17th, Mariners Christian School will celebrate its 30th Anniversary, and we hope YOU will be there to commemorate this special occasion! Many hands are working hard to make this an unforgettable birthday for MCS. We invite you to purchase your tickets at this link: http://mariners17.gesture.com. 

Within Vision2020, you may recall that one of the strategic goals we introduced was Maker Education. Maker Education focuses on giving students the time, space and tools to tinker, collaborate, build and test to further develop passions and strengthen skills within problem solving and STEM skills we all know are so important. Imagine a room filled with building materials, tools, electrical components and high tech gadgets at our students' disposal. Spaces like this can help them bring their ideas from thought, to design, to prototype. A room like that is called a Makerspace, and we are excited to bring high level Makerspace experiences to the students of MCS through this year's Fund-A-Vision initiative. 

Our Strategic Planning Committee of 21 staff members has been working hard to research dynamic school Makerspaces all over the country to help inform our decisions on instructional philosophy, grade level units, tools and resources. We look forward to sharing our findings and overall plan with you over the next few weeks as we ramp up toward the event. God has big plans for our students and we look forward to the exciting new opportunities they will have as budding innovators. 

Please view this short video produced by Children's Museum of Pittsburgh.

Let's all work together to provide our students these experiences as they are Created to Make for His Glory!

Troy Moore Head of School Mariners Christian School

P.S. If you or someone you know has a strong passion in the area of Maker Education or STEM, we invite you to join our Planning Committee by contacting me at tmoore@marinerscs.org.