PNG Fall 2017

TEENS 6th & Up Tuesdays & Thursdays from 4pm - 5pm

September

Movie Making (6-part) 9/12 - 9/28

Lights, Camera, Action!  Let's write a script, shoot some footage and edit it into a movie.

October

Harry Potter Book Page Art (2-part) 10/10 - 10/12

Create an awesome piece of art out of pages from an old discarded copy of Harry Potter using our Silhouette Cameo vinyl cutter and your own creativity.

TinkerCAD (4-part) 10/17 - 10/26

Learn to create 3D models and print them out on the Makerbot Replicator!  This class will teach you the basics of 3D design and how to use Tinkercad.com to create 3D objects that can be printed on any 3D printer.

November

Maker Skills: Soldering (4-part) 11/7 - 11/16

Learn how to solder!  We'll teach you how to handle a soldering iron and soldering safety, how to assemble components on a circuit board and everything else you need to know to bring electronics to life!

Thanksgiving Table Place Cards 11/21

Need decorations for your Thanksgiving table?  Don't go to the store, let's design them ourselves and make them real using our Silhouette Cameo electronic cutting machine!

Negative Space Art (2-part) 11/28 - 11/30

Combine creativity and technology in this fun program that utilizes vinyl cutting technology and natural artistry to create cool art!

Robot Club Thursdays from 4pm - 5pm

Interested in robotics?  Join our monthly robot club to learn how to use our Vex Robotics kit and form our very own Library Robotics Team!

September

Robot Club - 9/7

October

Robot Club - 10/5

November

Robot Club - 11/2

MIDKIDS 4th & Up Tuesdays & Thursdays from 6pm - 7pm

September

Live Action Comic Books (4-part) 9/12 - 9/21

Convert digital photos of real people and objects into cartoons, add captions and create your own comic.

Negative Space Art (2-part) 9/26 - 9/28

Combine creativity and technology in this fun program that utilizes vinyl cutting technology and natural artistry to create cool art!

October

Ozobot Obstacle Course Challenge (2-part) 10/10 - 10/12

Use coding techniques you've picked up from our Hour of Code sessions to program our cute Ozobot robots to run an obstacle course (no previous coding experience necessary)!

PNG Radio Scary Stories (4-part) 10/17 - 10/26

Read and record some scary stories and then edit them into a riveting radio hour!

November

Maker Skills: Video Game Development (4-part) 11/7 - 11/16

Try your hand at making a simple video game using Flowlab!

Thanksgiving Table Place Cards 11/21

Need decorations for your Thanksgiving table?  Don't go to the store, let's design them ourselves and make them real using our Silhouette Cameo electronic cutting machine!

Drawn to Life (2-part) 11/28, 11/30

Learn Adobe Photoshop basics and combine cameras, tracing on paper, and Photoshop to produce a one-of-a-kind self portrait!

Hour of Code Thursdays from 6pm - 7pm

Not only is coding massively important to the fabric of our digital world, but it can also be pretty fun!  Sign up for this quick introduction to activities on Code.org and play fun games while learning the fundamentals of basic coding then try your hand on some of our programmable robots!

September

Hour of Code - 9/7

October

Hour of Code - 10/5

November

Hour of Code - 11/2

Video Game Development Challenge - Day 4

We had a very chill final class and we added the finishing touches to our games. These games are now playable on this very blog so enjoy! http://www.flowlab.io/game/play/699879http://www.flowlab.io/game/play/641431

Paper Art - Day 2

Home stretch today... We wrapped up our designs and ran them through our vinyl cutter. After that, we got creative and gave them our own unique twist. The results turned out great!

Here are some of them:

Video Game Development Challenge - Day 3

Video game grind continued today as the two people that showed went straight to work on their games. They will hopefully have a finished product by Thursday that we can download to a mobile device to play!

Paper Art - Day 1

We got started with our paper designs by brainstorming for ideas of what to cut out. After we chose what we wanted to do, we went ahead and opened them in Silhouette Studio, our vinyl cutter design software, and got them ready to cut!

On Thursday, we'll run them through out vinyl cutter.

Video Game Development Challenge - Day 3

We spent most of the first class getting reacquainted with Flowlab.io and finding some inspiration from other games that people have created. Now it's time to get down to the task at hand and make some games!

Ozobot - Hour of Code Madhouse

Today was crazy we hosted an Hour of Code at the same time that we had an ozobots class. I don't think many students realized that the ozobots class was a 2-part class and you are supposed to attend both parts so we had a lot of new faces with people who had to get caught up on how to do everything very quickly. Thankfully some of our students from Tuesday were up to the challenge and helped Ahren teach class!

Video Game Development - Day 1 (Teens)

We had a pretty laid back class today. Only a couple people showed up, but that didn't stop them from starting to explore all that Flowlab can do to create games. Now we have until next Thursday to create our very game!

Ozobots - Day 1 (MidKids)

Nothing beats the feeling of the first PNG class of a new session. Today, we're going back to messing with the Ozobots! These popular, tiny robots are great for learning to code. We got started on building our very own obstacle course, and programmed our bots to go through it.

Thursday we will see which bots can make it through!