Movie Maker Skills: Editing (Day 3)

The editing continued today as we start to wrap up the process. The hard work has already been done. We were now free to tinker with some elements of Adobe Premier that we have never used before. We implemented cool effects like clip reversing to really make our projects unique.

We have one day left to edit our masterpieces so stay tuned to how how the projects turn out!

Mother's Day Cards (Day 2)

The design portion of class is over now we need to run our cardstock through the vinyl cutter and then remove excess paper, fold and put on the finishing touches!

Movie Maker Skills: Editing (Day 2)

We learned the basics of what it takes to construct a good scene in editing last time, so this time it's just continuing to get down to work on constructing our perfect versions of the footage provided free from Framelines.tv.

Mother's Day Cards - Day 1 (MidKids)

There's no better way to show your mom appreciation like making her your very own custom Mother's Day card! Using our vinyl cutter, we started cutting out card stock designs with our own personal messages to all our mothers. We ran into some trouble, but we're hoping to get it all fixed by Thursday!

Movie Maker Skills: Editing - Day 1

Today was one of our new movie making classes that, instead of embracing the whole movie making process, lets us really perfect our editing skills.

 We downloaded raw stock movie footage and used that to edit, skipping the filming process entirely. This footage, being as complex as it was, allows more advanced editing techniques like multiple camera angles

We stated strong today and will continue our editing Thursday!

Solder Make-Up Day 2!

MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU!!

Today we had another round of soldering just to see if we could finish the projects we started... AND WE DID!  Congrats to Rana for sticking with it, not giving up and getting her radio to work!

Hour of Code (MidKids)

Today, we decided to switch things up and have some fun with the old Kano kits. We haven't used them in a while so we figured we might as well! Everyone had a ball coding and messing around with games like Minecraft and Snake.

We like to have these sessions every month so be on the look out!

Soldering Make-up

We blew the dust off of our old soldering kit and gave it another crack after a failed attempt the first time around. We struggled at first and went through the tedious process of troubleshooting, looking for pieces that were installed the wrong way and faulty soldering points. After a whole lot of struggling, we got them to work! This is a PNG first, so great job everyone!

Paint Your Face - Day 2 (MidKids)

We finished up our photos today in Photoshop, adding some color and background. This results turned out awesome, as always. Check them out!

Video Game Challenge - Day 4 (Teens)

Our video game creating journey ends today. This isn't goodbye, however. We will continue to have these classes, as everyone seemed to really enjoy them. We finished up our games then got to play everyone's creations!

Paint Your Face - Day 1 (MidKids)

The classic PNG class is back! Since we've done this so many times, we let the pros pick pictures off the internet and got to tracing. We have some real artists in this class so this part was no problem. Thursday we will return and photoshop our pictures and add whatever backgrounds we want

Video Game Challenge - Day 3 (Teens)

The designing continued as we started adding more and more levels to our original games. We even managed to make our own version of Flappy Bird!


Thursday we will finish up and download these games to our mobile devices!

TinkerCAD - Day 2 (MidKids)

We wrapped up our designs today and our 3D prints look awesome! We got really innovative this time around and came up with some creative designs. They should be printing soon , so be on the lookout, everyone!

Video Game Challenge - Day 2

Our game-designing adventure continued today as we continued adding to our levels. We started messing around with game behaviors that allowed for scrolling levels, objects that can destroy characters, and objects that can win a game

We will continue to make our games more complex as we continue next week.

TinkerCAD - Day 1 (MidKids)

Everyone's favorite class is back. Long-time TinkerCAD pros were able to get right into their design. New comers were able to fly through the basics. Our designs are coming along well. We will finish up and print on Thursday.

Video Game Challenge - Day 1

Everybody loves video games so who wouldn't want to learn how to make them? Today, using our new software over at flowlab.io, we were able to do just that!

Everyone had the opportunity to bring their imaginations to life and create their own worlds! We will make our worlds more complex  over the next 3 days and have these games ready to play for the whole world to enjoy!

Movie Making Marathon!

We had a marathon day of making movies with the girl scouts today!  They started from scratch with nothing more than an idea and a script and ended up with some proper cinema!

Ozobot Obstacle Course Challenge - Day 2

Today was the last day everyone had to reach the finish line! With a little help to counter some faulty wheels, we had some winners! After that, we just tinkered with the coding software and made the ozobot do a whole bunch of crazy stuff

Vinyl Cutter - Day 2

We wrapped up the class today and finished putting our vinyl designs onto our glass panels! After some initial struggle, The results turned out great

Ozobot Obstacle Course Challenge - Day 1

Today was the first day of Ozobot Obstacle Course Challenge!  Day one, we designed our obstacle course and started taking measurements and test laps to try out our code.

Will anyone be able to make it to the finish line?!  Tune in next time to find out!