Makers

From Fearful to Fearless

“Oh, no. I am not doing THAT!” This declaration came from Andre, a seventh grader at Mound Elementary during my heat gun demonstration. We were working on the next step of our LED clouds: heating and bending acrylic rods. I usually talk about safety first when demonstrating any tool…

Stained Glass STEM

3D Printed Graffiti Tags

This week Frances and I continued helping with PAA’s Hip Hop Camp, introducing Tinkercad and the Makerbot to the…

Prepping Supplies for Fractal Bleach Activity

This week Frances and I have been prepping supplies and creating a lesson plan for a design challenge at University Settlement. The challenge is to use patterns and fractions to create art. Since this design challenge will be the last one for the…

Preparing Materials for the 2D/3D camp at Think[box]

For our 2D/3D camp we have been giving the campers platonic solids to build shapes out of to assist with the understanding of taking something 2D and transforming it to 3D. Diana and I use the laser cutters at the Larry Sears and Sally…