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All about the attributes of Makers, Builders, and Artist

Myriame

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My Headline: "Hamrick Elementary's Cardboard Challenge Successfully Brings Together Community for Fun Day of Creativity with Recycled Materials" 

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My Headline: "Hamrick Elementary's Cardboard Challenge Successfully Brings Together Community for Fun Day of Creativity with Recycled Materials" 

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As a kid, many, many moons ago, I used to make paper dolls and design dresses for them. Here's my Lego mini-fig and I had entirely too much fun making it out of a spare file folder and old magazines (for outfits).

In a MakerSpace, this is an excellent no-tech project that can help us get to know our students.

Used gifmaker.me (thanks, Day 1 learning) for this project.

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I have some excellent takeaways from today's sessions that I am really excited to try out with my Design students in the new school year:
Sketching/Sketchbooking
Creative Prompts
Rapid Prototyping

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My rapid prototyping idea was for a handpan that has electronic enhancements using solar power. With the Micro:bit, the temperature sensor could adjust the scale being played on the handpan and/or function similar to a MIDI grid controller.

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My 16-word headline:

Make in a Room or on Zoom!
Whittier MakerSpace Continues to Thrive Even During Distance Learning

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What if snow sounded like crunchy leaves?

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What if snow sounded like crunchy leaves?

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I dubbed Luke Skywalker's footsteps on the snow to make it sound like he's walking on crunchy leaves. Used a plastic bag and punched it as Luke's feet hit the snow. "Hard Clipping" effect on Audacity made the sounds much sharper and maybe even less leaf-like.

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I'm reminded of a famous quote from the Marvel character.
Despite all the challenges, all the setbacks and complications we've had to deal with this year and potentially for the foreseeable future, we have nowhere to go from here but up.
We have to take everything we've learned from remote and blended learning and apply it to the "new normal" to make education more adaptable, more flexible, and more accommodating for ALL of our students.

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I thought I would identify a number of qualities that our maker students should strive for in order to be the most successful designers they can be!

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This micro:bit is coded to select an activity to do to maintain physical and mental health.

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Today, we were to create a “logo”. We started the design process and made multiple iterations to create the best design. Then learned how to take a hand drawn picture and turn it into a digital vector. Love all this new learning!!

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Aileen B.

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Loved all the new ideas today! I can't wait to implement the Foley Art with my tech students, I think they would have a blast learning, testing, and doing that with different movie and video game clips! I wish we had more time to make within each session, there is just so much to do! :)

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So the top one was an attempt at me. I used qualities like team player, creative, and idea machine. The bottom two were me just playing around. I used an adult coloring book and etch art sheets to make the various decorations. (for instance, the biker hair is actually the head feather of a parrot) - Caitlin Jackson

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I have learned a-lot about how to make a Maker Space fun, engaging, intriguing, yet challenging at the same time.

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I have learned a-lot about how to make a Maker Space fun, engaging, intriguing, yet challenging at the same time.

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Myriame

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Myriame

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by Caitlin Jackson

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MacGyver (should be next years theme....just saying...)

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MacGyver (should be next years theme....just saying...)

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#mulletpower
My mini me - I mean mini fig - was fun to decorate and reflect on how I would like to be my best teacher self. We did a lot of that over this past year as a part of self care and I decided to give that another go.

In Hindsight2021, I really felt the struggle to get away from the COVID but look at two different aspects. While a lot of great apps, and advances in technology came out of COVD, I fear that we are also going to loose more than we gain with social interactions.

Prototyping 101 was very informative. I, like my students, want to jump right in to the assignment and get it done. But when Adam said its good to plan (for more than the obvious reasons) so that teachers can see what the students are thinking and how their idea of a windmill is different than ours. I have to remember to take a step back and allow the planning otherwise you get my ideas which were not honed or refined and may still change.

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I made a solar powered pendulum that can swing back and forth to hit the chimes or the metal on the other side.

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Mandalorian

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I took the approach of writing qualities I have, that sometimes I need to remember I possess. This would make a great icebreaker for the new school year. Students could look at it an reflect on their words as the year progresses.

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This was so great! Thanks Erin....

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I created a prototype for a solar panel that connects to a crankshaft that spins a rain stick. If it is windy and not sunny, it can also be powered by wind, because as a scientist, I wanted to come up with more than one way to make my prototype function.

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My partner in breakout room (I forget the spelling of your name sorry!) was describing a cardboard challenge, and I thought of this headline:
Local Librarian Brings Community Together and Inspires Engineering through Cardboard, Creativity and Collaboration using a Challenge!

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Or is it a rolling chair that is out of control.. you decide!

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I got lost in playing with my Wampa Monster Sound. This was too fun playing with all of the effects.

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A scientist walks into a bar...wait...

A scientist likes to go for a walk outside on sunny days. On their sunglass, each color can play another note depending on how much sunlight they are exposed to. Or it just could charge your airpods...or it can play ominous music if you've been outside too long...

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Dottie and Louie!

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#nope #runaway

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Must you run?

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BP0aN5cn4Y0J5ej0ii4r4Y4vsOogHmZ6utS_QNhfRNo/edit#slide=id.p
Myriame

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Student changes the world through her Makerspace experience she is able to help those around her!

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Student changes the world through her Makerspace experience she is able to help those around her!

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Kim

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The isolation due to distancing and the unknown of when friends could come back together again was a struggle many went through.

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Area man accepts imperfection (finally!), and beautifies a community center with ceramic wall art, inspiring others.

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Area man accepts imperfection (finally!), and beautifies a community center with ceramic wall art, inspiring others.

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(Jordan B)

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Davis students produce ground breaking innovation to help their community and the world in school Makerspace.

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Make Inspiration at Home with BPL's circulating STEAM Kits

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Make Inspiration at Home with BPL's circulating STEAM Kits

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As a first year Maker teacher, I'll expose kids to coding, robotics, building, and STEM.

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Teacher's Superpower  Discovered... Learning!

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Teacher's Superpower  Discovered... Learning!

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Even though it's been two years shelved, Dani will creatively mix fabrics to make colorful quilts!

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Melanie has the materials to create a vertical and colorful classroom lego wall for primary students.

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Students Design New Murals To Brighten The School With Colorful Messages That Bring Positivity To Campus

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Irle Elementary School Establishes A Makerspace - Stay Tuned For Exciting Projects.
This is from LeAnne

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Our ecosystem is challenged on a daily basis. Garbage pile everywhere. Can students take action to be stewards of the environment by designing and building an automated garbage collector?

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What do you want to take forward from Covid?

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What do you want to take forward from Covid?

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I want to do more now- not allowing the “what if’s” to keep me from doing things and going places.

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I found this LEGO mini-fig from last year's MEC Bootcamp. I took the approach of what I want my best self to be as a Maker teacher.

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I used this tomorrow to answer the Essential questions: What was it like? And what has change and will be changed in the future? Looks like in the Northeast, snow days may be a thing of the past because students can learn online.

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Baby Yoda fan sticker!

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Student example of 3D modeling and technical drawing. This student loved to draw but had little experience with technology before working the makerspace. He fell in love with digital design and fabrication, finding it unintimidating through the making of things. Now this artist is putting together a portfolio to apply to architecture school.

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Student example of a "Movable Masterpiece" combining art and robotics using the Hummingbird robotics board and programming the lights and motors in Snap.

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The painting "Untitled" by Kerry James Marshall was the original inspiration. Working on this project rekindled her interest in painting. Her response highlighted this fact: "This art piece was a bridge between worlds, and what got me back into painting"