Will Rogers Elementary School students combined their creativity with the information they’ve been learning all year to create sustainable engineering projects and a student-built cardboard arcade.

The city’s school system completed more than 30 capital improvement projects totaling $11.4 million over the summer.

From colorful turkeys to sturdy toothpick tables to seaworthy foil vessels, the students in Miss Higgs’ fifth-grade class at Freeland Elementary put their engineering minds to work. Students worked to ...