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The following year, the school renovated the east wing. They planned to demolish 66X and turn it into a storage closet.

“Welcome to Engineering Basics,” she said, writing on the chalkboard (a chalkboard in the age of smart screens). “Open your laptops.”

Marcus raised his hand. “But what if we can’t fix it? What if the problem is too big?” classroom66x

At the end of the semester, Ms. Velez gathered the class. She pointed to the flicker-free light, the stable Wi-Fi, the level desks, the power tree.

The students protested. They made a presentation to the school board. They showed data on attention scores, problem-solving gains, and the cost savings of repairing rather than replacing. The following year, the school renovated the east wing

The board voted unanimously:

And Team Morale ran a second test: with the flicker gone and the Wi-Fi stable, attention scores returned to normal. Then, surprisingly, they went above normal. Students reported feeling more focused in 66X than in the brand-new smart classrooms. Why? “Open your laptops

Team Power realized that if they created a “power tree”—one master strip connected to the outlet, then secondary strips daisy-chained in parallel rather than series—they could run fifteen laptops without overloading the circuit.