Engineering Action

Engineering Action is dedicated to providing experiential learning through classes, camps and special events to children from preschool to 8th grade.

Why? Because introducing children to STEAM topics through open ended creative learning is both fun and rewarding.   

The original concept was to use LEGO bricks to teach middle school students how to perform experiments. Engineering Action started with “free play” classes at Brookwood School, and has since evolved to classes utilizing motors, gears, and robotics. Engineering Action now offers classes in a range of topics and combines LEGO with other materials such as littlebit, Cubelets,  Strawbees, Arduino and Dash and Dot.

Engineering Action has provided programming to the following organizations.

 

  • Ipswich EDP after school program

  • Ipswich Library

  • Topsfield and Boxford Horizons, after school program

  • The Community House of Hamilton and Wenham

  • The Wenham Museum

  • Hamilton Wenham Middle School,

  • Myopia Hunt Club, Brookwood School

  • North Shore Community College

  • North Shore Christian School

  • Glen Urquhart School

  • Brookwood School

Jo-Ann Gorrell

I founded the company in 2004. I am a Mechanical Engineer with a Master's in Quality Assurance. I started my career as a process engineer specializing in performing statistically designed experiments. I am passionate about education, children, experimenting and building.  Throughout the years I've been called the LEGO lady many times, I'll wear the title proudly, but I see myself as the teaching lady or the engineering lady, LEGO and other materials happen to be the perfect medium for both teaching and engineering. 

I enjoy working with people of all ages and problem solving of all types, whether it’s improving Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough for Ben & Jerry’s or exploring gears with children.

I am also the mother of 5 sons and live in Ipswich, MA.