Innovations is the first course in an experimental collaboration with other small schools in Yamhill County. This particular course is the brainchild of Patrick Verdun at Dayton High School, and revolves around the fact that students can learn faster than we can teach them. In that spirit, students in this course are given a window of time to experiment with a number of 21st century tools designed to teach them the basic building block of computer science. They start with very simple block based coding via MIT's "Scratch" project, move on to working with actual hardware in the form of Inventor's Kits from Sparkfun, and then transition into the physical with basic digital modeling and mold making. Students in this course will find themselves less instructed and more encouraged to fail spectacularly. They will write their own rubrics, grade themselves and each other, and decide for themselves what success looks like within the framework of the course. As they stumble upon new discoveries, they are expected to embrace a culture of collaboration, and share what they find with each other. If they choose to take a second semester, students will take what they've learned so far and pitch me a project they'd like to spend the semester working on, reporting back to me every two weeks with their progress, using an industry standard agile method (through Trello) to keep track of their progress and story as the semester unfolds. I'm excited to offer a student lead course of this nature, and looking forward to more of them as this program grows.