Waunakee High School Innovation Center

10/30/2024

Please consider taking one or all of the senior engineering capstone course problem surveys. All surveys were student created and are intended to collect data to validate and justify their problem.

Golf Grip Issues
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhvw78jFQw-KVzwMqfBH-39hZEM-2GekWcKJyD3D2HduvtOA/viewform?usp=sf_link

Fair play in card games
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZxUUnJ1fuHQnMU3UOxhPkq_0Ii8zl8LnOzyxK3Misv73cdQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Safety with clearing/breaching a building
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBZsC_UG-5bepN9D801LF-K8v0yL5nr_2NTHCTl_ZrvfHYmw/viewform?usp=sf_link

We are gathering information for our senior high school engineering project. The information that we are trying to receive is about how comfortable/safe you feel room clearing is, and your personal experience on what is good about current clearing tactics and technology, and what is missing that wil...

04/19/2024

FYI and pass it along. The Waunakee Print Pub staff is hosting a one time only overstock sale from May 1st to the end of school (6/10/24). Books will be sold for 10.00 per book (cash or check only) from 7:45am-4pm M-F. People can check the link below to see what is available for purchase. We will try to keep it updated regularly.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y7A198cCYoFP3mxw2roFv0aMambsPnCiU1nORfa9_Vs/edit?usp=sharing

01/02/2023

This was a fun interview. Alex was fun to work with.

kids

As the use of ed tech continues to grow, K–12 schools are building out tech-centric spaces where students can develop new skills for the future.

11/29/2022

Before 2016, finding the tech-ed shop at Waunakee High School was tricky. With it located behind a metal door, unless a student was enrolled in a class there, they’d have

11/28/2022

⭐️ Thank you, TDS! ⭐️ Today, our Waunakee Innovation Center received a generous donation from TDS to support student learning in our lab. Their donation helped purchase a Go Pro Camera Kit, extra batteries, and a mounting accessory kit. This will allow our students and staff to document project builds with better quality video and images. We can mount it in our equipment as well as go mobile with the camera more easily. Pictured is Innovation Center Director Jeff Willauer, with TDS employees Hannah Teasdale, Laurie Gerner, and Sam Abolkhair. TDS Telecommunications LLC Waunakee High School Innovation Center

05/09/2022

Another cool project in the books!

This duo! We can’t thank you enough for your prep work, game time fun, AND for being our biggest fans. ❤️⚾️❤️ Thank you also to Mr. Willauer, the Waunakee High School Innovation Center and a couple baseball moms for creating this bat and bats for our seniors. Jodi Ryan

03/03/2022

What a blast! Last night we hosted community members (and a couple former Innovation Center students) for our laser cut candle box workshop. Participants learned about the laser and the Innovation Center project while staining and assembling their projects. Thank you for making our first post COVID workshop a success. Please visit the WCSD Community Ed Website or our own Innovation Center Website for details about future events.

Com Ed Website:
https://www.waunakee.k12.wi.us/district/communityeducation.cfm

Innovation Center Website:
https://innovationcenterwaunakee.weebly.com/community.html

12/01/2021

WE ARE BACK! Please join us for our first community workshop of the 2021-2022 school year. Participants will use Adobe Illustrator and our Universal Lasers to create a custom gift giving set including:

- 1 custom designed canvas gift bag
- 3 hand painted snowflake ornaments
- 4 custom personalized gift/stocking tags

Registration opens 12/2/2021 and is limited to the first 20 participants. We hope to see you there!

https://waunakee.revtrak.net/community-education/rw-school-year-program/

Don't forget to check out our website for more information!
https://innovationcenterwaunakee.weebly.com/

11/18/2021

Jeff Willauer, Technology Education teacher, and Mark Felten, LMTC Assistant, install new WHS LMTC table dividers fabricated across the hall in the Innovation Center.

The plastic dividers were cut and etched using the laser cutter while the brackets were designed by a student in the Big Idea Tech Ed course and later 3D printed.

Amazing work!

05/20/2021

Simply Amazing....That's all I have for this project. Jack just finished his final project for Big IDEA and it is mind blowing. Jack set out to create a home made turntable to spin up some of his favorite vinyl records. From start to finish everything about this project is beyond belief. He used the tools in our Woods Lab to create the wooden plinth. Jack then laser engraved artwork onto the plinth using our Universal Laser Systems ULS 6.60. The turntable and other machining was done using our Forest Scientific Corporation CNC router and the 3D printed parts were accomplished on his home Ultimaker Cura 3D printer. The internals are controlled by Arduino and some basic electronic components. You can check out the rest of his build here. Great job Jack!
https://jackkashuk.weebly.com/final-project.html

04/23/2021

Some one of the cool projects we have worked on. Paul Busse designed the clamping system for the custom laser engraved Acrylic panels. Clamps were printed on our MakerBot replicator printers and the panels were laser engraved on our Universal Laser Systems ULS 6.60 laser as part of our "Redesign Project" where students solve everyday projects using our Innovation Center Equipment.