Negative Space Art - Day 1

Who doesn't love some homemade (or library-made) art? We are dusting off our vinyl cutters and creating our own silhouette art on our appropriately named software, Silhouette Studios! We did a quick image search for some cool designs, cut them on to vinyl, and slapped them on a canvas. On Thursday, we will channel our inner Renaissance and paint our canvas. When we peel away our vinyl cling, we will be left with some awesome art!

The Great Egg Drop!

We are reviving an old fan-favorite PNG program: The Great Egg Drop! Our students had an hour to design an enclosure for an egg that would ensure its survival when thrown off of our roof using miscellaneous tools such as straws, balloons, cups, and newspaper. We got our engineering on and the results were no yolk.

Robot Club

We're back at it today with more robot building! We now have two "fully" built robots. One needed some syncing configuration and the other needed some screw and motor adjustments. We'll use this blog entry to record our progress so we can look back and fix all of our mistakes next month!

TinkerCAD - Day 4

It is the last day! We wrapped up and put the final touches on all of our designs and got them downloaded as STL files and sent them off to the 3D printer. In a couple of hours, our designs will be brought into the physical realm 

TinkerCAD - Day 3

At this point, everyone should have at least one design they can work hard on up until the last day. We've gotten some preliminary prints done and with some experience under our belt now, we can continue updating and improving our designs and taken what we've learned onto new designs!

TinkerCAD - Day 2

Today was the 2nd day of TinkerCAD.  We learned the basics and now it's time to design something cool!  Students are working on some cool designs that we can't wait to see finished!

TinkerCAD- Day 1

It is that time of the year again! Time for another TinkerCAD class...and a full one, too. We got some newcomers learning the ropes of 3D design and we cut some veterans loose right away so they could get started with their designs. We're excited to see how these prints turn out!

Hour of Code

We had another large coding session today! We all improved our coding skills on code.org, where we learned about if-then commands, repeat loops, and the importance of clean and efficient coding. We'll be back next month for another Hour of Code class

Robot Club

It is robot time again! We continue on building our 2nd Clawbot while doing some troubleshooting on the one that is already built! We had a newcomer  so we did some
referring back to old blog posts. These blog posts are also used as journal entries to remind ourselves of our progress when we dust off the robots next month.

The Bot is looking pretty good so far!

Movie Making: The Final Day!

We wrapped up editing today! After a grueling day of chopping up and throwing Chroma and Green Screen Keys on our raw footage, we got to add the elements of a film that bring out the magic! We added everything from wand dueling noises to car crashes to even a film score! One group finished a short film and the other a movie trailer. Check them out...

TinkerCAD: Special Edition (Part Two!)

Today was the other group's turn to take a crack at 3D printing! The Summer Academy students got some lessons on our CAD software, TinkerCAD. They learned how to move and adjust the workplane and objects, create holes, scale objects....the works! They get to pick up their keychain/nameplate designs necxt time they come to the library!

Movie Making: Day 4

All of the movies have been shot and now it's time to edit!  Can't wait to see the finished movies!

Movie Making: Day 3

Today is the 3rd day of movie making.  We had two groups finish principle photography for their movies and are now ready to start editing.  One other group is about to start filming in our PNG Studio B location!

With today, next Thursday and the Thursday after to work on our movies odds are pretty good that we might end up with some pretty great videos!

TinkerCAD: Special Edition

We had a very special TinkerCAD class today with the Mr. Fryer's Summer Academy students.  The kids learned the basics of TinkerCAD and created their very own name plate/key chain!  We'll get the 3D printers in the Next Gen Lab running and start printing out all of their cool creations for them to pick up the next time they're in the library!

Movie Making: Day 2!

While everyone started finishing up their scripts, we went ahead and started shooting scenes for the group that were already done! All of the planning that went into the last day is coming in handy; we're using our storyboards and scripts to shoot as efficiently as possible. We are about 50% shooting two movies and throughout the next two classes we'll wrap up shooting and prepare for the grueling editing process...

Movie Making - Day One!

Today was the first day of movie making here at Project Next Generation!  It's always tough to stare at a blank page with endless possibilities and try to figure out what kind of story to tell, but the faster we write a script and cast our movie, the faster we can get to shooting scenes and editing footage!

Hour of Code: June 2019

Today was a big Hour of Code session!  We had an almost full classroom of coders learning and honing their skills on www.code.org!

Robot Club

Today was the first day of Robot Club for the summer.  We had a batch of all new students this time around and we are getting started from the ground up!

Vinyl Cutter - Day 2

Today was the last day for vinyl clings and the last day of spring for PNG and a lot of these kids.  School is out and PNG Summer 2019 starts next week, Tuesday @ 2pm!

Poster Sessions

Iris and Alexis have been working hard on creating posters for "fun".

Check out their great work!