Subcommittee members toured plans for the Capitol’s civics lab on Aug. 28 and heard that the design system — including a color palette, typography and interactive styles — has been approved and is being applied across the physical and digital elements.
Project staff said furniture builds are in production at the DI shop and that micro-interactive samples will be available for the committee to touch and test. Content writers have drafted materials for a young audience and are working with the Wyoming Department of Education; staff said approved content will be shared with the subcommittee for review.
Designers described the room-as-lesson approach: the civics lab will center on the constitution and the first five articles, with the central station labeled “Constitution Station” and walls devoted to citizen, separation of powers, legislature, executive and judicial topics. Staff said the design will present the original constitutional language on-screen and offer plain-English, age-appropriate translations for younger students.
Student-path graphics (to create anticipation en route to the lab) are approved and will be installed before the civics lab opens; staff said the schedule for those graphics is still being finalized. The subcommittee was told the largest interactives are in development and undergoing core-team review; a field trip to the lab space was scheduled for committee members to see taped mockups and micro-interactive samples.
There were no formal committee votes; staff described the work as in the final development and testing phase and asked members to review a final graphic/content package that will be sent to the committee.