What’s Cool at School: Kids design skate park

<p>A Brooklyn school program is teaching students city planning and design skills by creating a mock skate park.&nbsp;</p>

News 12 Staff

Feb 14, 2018, 1:42 PM

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A Brooklyn school program is teaching students city planning and design skills by creating a mock skate park.
The new design lab at P.S. 132 is bringing city planning to life with funding from the Walentas Family Foundation and the borough president's office.
The fifth-graders are tasked with creating models of skate parks while applying science, math, and creative thinking.
The program teaches problem-solving and teamwork in order to build life skills, organizers say.
This is the third year the school has had a residency with the non-profit Salvadori Center, which teaches kids to apply math and science through architecture.