Matti Lohen koulu (Matti Lohi school)

Matti Lohi school is a unified school located in the center of Rautalampi. Rautalampi is a municipality of 3000 residents and located in the Northern Savonia region of Finland. The school has about 270 students in grades 1 to 9. The school has an active, warm and enthusiastic working community. The school's activities are committed to reinforcing a culture of positive pedagogy and teamwork that strengthens inclusion.

Matti Lohi school participated in the LfE-project as a school cluster with Kerkonjoki school. Finnish curriculum is strongly based on technological skills, collaboration between subjects and creativity, and the schools felt like the current conditions couldn't provide students what the curriculum requires.

The purpose of the project was to create a fab-lab environment that could be a center for operational technical equipment. The community is very extensively tied to the project, so that not only the students and teachers get to utilize the equipment but a wide variety of stakeholders as well. With this in mind, the schools bought Microbits, 3D printer, iPads, Lego educational spike class set, Sphero Bolt -coding robot, and laser cutter.