TinkerCAD - Day 4

Today is the day! We all had one last day to finish up our designs and prepare them for the 3D printer.  Some final finishing touches (or last minute scrambling, for some) did the trick.

Overall, the designs are going to turn out awesome when they are printed!

TinkerCAD - Day 3

We continued our 3D printing journey. Given that everyone this time around decided to challenge their 3D design abilities, we ran into some slumps. We powered through and are well on our way to finishing our designs. Some last minute

 tweaks next class should be enough!

TinkerCAD - Day 2

We are slowly getting some promising results!

Today, we contined our 3D printing journey on TinkerCAD.com and everyone has finished the lessons, which means we are all set to make an awesome project! We have the bases of our projects set.

All that is left now is fine tuning and adding our own personal touch.

TinkerCAD - Day 1

Today marks the return of TinkerCAD!

TinkerCAD is a 3D design tool that you can use for free at TinkerCAD.com. CAD stands for Computer Assisted Design and CAD tools allow people to make digital 3D objects that can be printed on our Makerbot Replicator 3D printer.

Today, students learned the basics of TinkerCAD and set out to create an awesome 3D design of their own!

Negative Space Art - Day 2

Today was the second day of Negative Space Art.  In the first class we used the Silhouette Cameo vinyl cutter to cut out a vinyl cling silhouette design of our choice.

Today, we put that silhouette vinyl cling on a canvas and then painted the negative space.  When the paint dried we peeled off the vinyl and voila!  Art!

Photoshop!

Today is a throwback to the basics of Photoshop since we've been having many new-comers lately! We reviewed how to use Adobe Photoshop and the basic tools we can use within it. From there, we each took a picture of ourselves and inserted them into backgrounds of our choosing. The final results turned out great!

Negative Space Art - Day 1

We got our creative hats on today! We are picking out designs to paint over on a canvas. We printed out those designs on vinyl using the Silhouette Studio and the next class is going to be dedicated to letting out our inner Picasso

Kano Computer Kits - Day 4

Today is the last day of the session. While it is a sad day, we still made the most of it! We Continued our game hacking journey and learned some more about the "behind-the-scenes" work that goes into making games.

Be on the lookout for future Kano classes. We hope to use these to their full potential in coding classes to come!

Vinyl Shop - Day 2

Last day to finish our vinyl stickers! Due to the complex design chosen by our student, most of today was spent making sure the vinyl design came out as planned. A whole bunch of careful peeling and cutting happened today. I am pretty positive that the end result was well worth it, however.

Kano Computer Kits - Day 3

Day three today! Now that all the "exploring" is done, it's time to get serious. Today starts our hardcore coding. We are learning how to code games now and also
a lot about what it takes to make things we usually take for granted everyday.

Vinyl Shop - Day 1

Today is nothing new for our PNG pros. We are making our very own vinyl stickers! We picked out silhouette designs online to cut out using the Cameo cutter. Our pro decided to pick out a complex design and it looks like it is going to turn out amazing! Next class will require much more patience. We are going to peel and pull the printed out vinyl so it can become a proper sticker.

Kano Computer Kits - Day 2

Day 2...Now that we have the building process down, it is time to code! The kids all enjoyed coding games like Minecraft or Pong. It looks like we have some future game designers in the class!

Papercraft & Photoshop - Day 4

Today is the last day! The kids were pretty quick in learning everything so we tried our best to do one more quick design before we had to go.

Kano Computer Kits - Day 1

Today was the introductory class to the much-anticipated  Kano computer kit class! We broke down the kits and learned a whole bunch of stuff about the parts of a computer and how they function. We hope to use these kits for future coding!

Papercraft & Photoshop - Day 3

Today was pure editing. We just sat back and use Photoshop to insert our backgrounds behind our awesome figures. Photoshop did it's magic and the final results ended up looking a little like this:

We have one class left so we'll see how fast we can print, build, and Photoshop a brand new figure!

Papercraft & Photoshop - Day 2

Today was the second day of working on our awesome projects. We finished our folding and had our figures take part in their own photo shoot! From there, we used Photoshop to put them wherever we could think of!

The results turned out pretty good. Take a look!

Makey Makey!

Today, we introduced the Makey Makey to some new faces and showed them what it was capable of! We played some pretty cool games using the Makey Makey as a controller!

This can be used for much more than that though. It can be used as a piano to make music, or even a remote shutter to take pictures.

Stay tuned for more Makey Makey classes in the future!

Papercraft & Photoshop - Day 1

We went old school today and printed out some awesome paper crafts. Using card stock, we were able to fold them to look like awesome superheroes and super villains.

 Next class, we are going to Photoshop the crafts we just made into whatever background our hearts desire!

Hour of Code!

Today we introduced coding to a new person! We went back to the basics and explained coding using the simple "box coding" on Code.org.

We offer coding to a wide variety of levels for those interested in coding and have classes that go hands on with more in-depth coding so stay tuned!

Mixcraft - Day 4

Today was the last day of Mixcraft!  For your listening pleasure please enjoy these amazing tunes!