Susan Hegeberg

Assistant Principal Hegeberg wants to engage ninth through 12th graders in high-stakes learning in an effort to help them make sense of concepts and solve complex problems with her program idea, "Flight By Design". During the course of the four-year program, students will learn to grapple with design flaws and errors, deal with limited resources, meet deadlines and navigate setbacks with the goal of designing and flying better airplanes. The project, which will serve as a capstone experience for students, will begin in ninth grade with students creating, designing and testing structural efficiencies of wing beams. Tenth graders will explore manmade and biological wing shapes and eleventh graders will investigate propulsion systems and on-board and telemetric data collection systems. In their final year, students will leverage their knowledge to design, build, test, modify and retest better planes. According to Hegeberg, learning what does not work is often as valuable as learning what does work. Students will test multiple iterations of model plans in an effort to become better mathematicians, scientists and engineers. She is a resident of Edmonds.