School News: First STEAM Space for Girls Opens in Rhode Island

Spring 2019

At Lincoln School (RI), culture is proactive, action-oriented, and bold. That’s precisely how it was able to get a new learning area up and running in less than two and a half years. The school designed, funded, constructed, and opened the STEAM Hub, the only dedicated space for STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art/architecture, math) learning for girls in Rhode Island.

The STEAM Hub transformed the exterior facade of a historic building into a state-of-the-art facility with interdisciplinary teaching spaces. Photo by Warren Jagger
       
The building, which opened in May 2018, includes 4,000 square feet of interdisciplinary teaching space for science, math, and the humanities, including new physics and chemistry labs, recently renovated biology labs, glass-enclosed study spaces, and a 2,000-square-foot art gallery for students and visiting artists.
             
The Lincoln advancement team raised more than $5 million for the STEAM Hub and secured a $2 million gift, the largest in school history. Fundraising was so robust that the center opened with a $500,000 endowment in place.

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