Thursday, January 28, 2016

Movie making - Day 2

Lights, Camera, Action! We start filming our masterpiece today. A little late for the Oscar nod, but we're well on our way.

PNG Soldering: Day 2

Day two of making our own voice changer! We got at soldering our actual kit once we got the hang of using the soldering iron.

We are well on our way to having a finished product!

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Movie making! - Day 1

The agenda for today in our first movie making class was doing what all the great directors and writers do: Script things out! We learned the basics of what it takes to create our very own film and got down to some plot scripting. The actors and actresses are going to have to bring their A-game next class!

PNG Soldering: Day 1

Today was the first day of soldering.  The kids got hit with a big dose of soldering safety, does and don'ts.

When they were ready to get started we busted out the hot soldering irons for some practice and got ready to take on the main project of making our own voice changers!


Thursday, January 21, 2016

Paint your Face Photoshop - Day 2

Today we wrapped things up! We had some new comers that made some pretty awesome stuff and the others continued to add details to their already awesome pictures! We all made our very own pieces of contemporary art. 





















Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Paint your Face Photoshop - Day 1

In this class, students created their very own self portraits using a camera and Photoshop! We are putting pictures of the students under tracing pads and coloring them on Photoshop. The results are looking pretty cool!

Thursday, January 14, 2016

TinkerCAD - Last Day

Today was the last day of TinkerCAD, our 3D designs are finished and looking awesome.  Now to way 19 hours for them to print.



Tuesday, January 12, 2016

BristleBots!

What do you get when you combine a toothbrush, a battery, and a motor? Hours of fun, of course!. The kids had a blast today making their own dental hygiene robots. We had a battle of the bots when all was done.

TinkerCAD - Day 3

We are nearing the end of TinkerCAD this time around and the designs are getting pretty refined!

The students spent today finalizing their designs and putting the finishing touches on their 3D models.  Thursday, they will export their models into files usable by our 3D printer.






Thursday, January 7, 2016

Hour of Code!

This is our monthly code session where we hang out and practice coding. If you're new to coding you can dip your toe in the water by visiting www.Code.org and on www.Khanacademy.com.

We continue to learn more and more about the big world of coding!

Look out for future coding programs!

TinkerCAD - Day 2

We continued our 3D design projects today.  Students are encouraged to take their time and make their projects awesome!

That means detail, thought and effort!

Thanks are "shaping up" nicely.





Tuesday, January 5, 2016

TinkerCAD - Day 1

A new TinkerCAD class for the new year!  We've got a return of our TinkerCAD experts who are going to use TinkerCAD.com over the course of the next 4 classes to create some mind-blowing 3D objects to be printed out on our Makerbot Replicator 3D printer.
First they just have to remember where the Undo button is!