What makes Rye Country Day School’s STEAM curriculum interdisciplinary?

Here’s the secret: they don’t just teach STEAM subjects—they stir them together like a perfect smoothie of creativity and logic. At RCDS, the arts and sciences are besties. Music tech classes meet coding. Visual art meets digital fabrication. It’s not unusual to see a student designing a wearable light display that’s both fashion statement and engineering feat. And then there’s the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program, where students blend business smarts, design skills, and technical know-how to launch actual products. The curriculum is like a group project done right: science, tech, art, and math all playing nicely and building something epic together. It’s all about teaching students to think in systems, design across disciplines, and, yes, occasionally wow the crowd with a laser-cut architectural model.