Recent graduate Sara Willner-Giwerc’s doctoral research focused on supporting open-ended engineering activities in the classroom. Her work focused on a worksheet format, called “Placemats”, which provides scaffolded prompts that support solution diversity. Focused on robotics, the placemats share building and coding information that allows students to be creative and achieve functional solutions. This research was the focus of a recent article in the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) journal Science and Children.