This Week at Strongsville

The Imagination and Invention Camp and the Maker Corps. (Steph and I) went over to Strongsville this week. The kids were bursting with energy which is always good but challenging for them when it came time to get the introductory stuff out of the way. Many of the kids had never used…

Lessons from Boston Continuing to Resonate

This summer I am teaching a series of what we’re calling “Imagination and Invention…

Camp Base Strongsville!

Strongsville has been a pleasure, the kids were all very excited and ready to build immediately. It was amazing watching how creative the kids got with some of the materials. Rubber bands was one of the most commonly used materials this week.

Final Day at the Fairview Camp

Today is the final day of the Imagination and Invention Camp at Fairview Library and I have some pretty high hopes for the kids and their final Rube Goldberg machines. Yesterday was their primary work day and I must say that the kids made some pretty substantial progress on…

More Pictures from Fairview Park!

No Magic Hands This Week!

The term “Magic Hands” refers to the use of human intervention in order to make the Kinetic Sculpture work completely. With such a tight deadline and such awesome and often lofty goals most projects in our Imagination and Innovation camps require the use of magic hands. This is…

Scratch Camp at John Adams

Last week, due to the extended weekend Steph and I didn’t have a kinetic sculpture class to work with so instead I went over to John Adams High School where kids from all around the area were attending a number of summer programs. The one that I was working with was Scratch based…

Less Time Wasted, More Time Working!

Ah, another fantastic week of learning how to build and incorporate technology into cool and funky sculptures with Scratch programming. The kids this week have been enjoying their time at the camp very much, they are like little ever flowing fountains of energy and…

Imagination, Innovation, and Invention in Warrensville!