Thirty students attended this week's club meeting. The final five coaster projects were scored, and the three winning teams were announced with prizes distributed. Students were reminded to submit their documentation of the coaster project in 3D GameLab, and once they had completed that step, they moved on to the next project--fabricating paper masks. Students started this quest in GameLab, where they found instructions on how to prepare and construct their masks, and they read about the related STEM career of fabrication and robotics tools for folding metals. Students were able to choose from four half-mask designs--fox, wolf, bear, or bird. Most students were able to start their cutting/pasting today, but the actual constructing of masks will start in earnest during the next club meeting on April 12th. Enough templates are available for each student to make each mask. At the end of the club meeting, Mrs. Vick distributed permission forms for the first club field trip to the Burlington mini-maker faire, and a sample working makerspace at Elon University, on Saturday, April 23rd. The two activity buses will allow up to 24 students to participate, and the first 24 students who return their permission forms will be able to participate. The club is taking a one-week break, since the three school mentors will be at a conference on April 5th; next meeting April 12th.
Twenty-nine students attended this past Tuesday's club meeting on 3-15-2016 and finished their coaster projects. Club mentors scored completed coasters based on listed criteria (e.g., originality, number of parts used, clean trials with marbles not falling off tracks, and time of run). Students added titles, artwork, and other flair to their coasters to improve creativity scores. Teams that finished early logged their work in the 3D GameLab learning environment to earn points for the project. The project's external evaluator, Eleanor Hasse, observed the club today and met with different student teams working on projects. The club will be taking a one-week break for Wake County's spring break next week, then will be back in action on March 29th.
Thirty one students attended this week's club meeting, Tuesday March 8th, 2016. Student teams neared completion of their paper coaster projects. Almost all teams have their complete support structures in place and will use next week's club meeting to add track around their support structures. The following week we will hold our competition with marbles using guidelines provided to students. Students will earn points for such variables as: how cleanly the marble travels through the track, the length of time the marble takes to travel the track with more elaborate tracks worth more points, and coaster aesthetics.
This week in iNEST, 32 students continued to work on their paper coaster projects. Their support structures are beginning to take shape, soon to be adorned with the more creative track elements (curves, straight track, drops, funnels). We were excited to receive several dozen boxes of supplies this week along with plastic storage to begin stocking the makerspace with permanent tools (tape dispensers, screwdrivers, multimeter, scissors, hammers, xacto's, wire cutters, glue guns, etc.) and consumable materials (construction paper, tissue paper, tape, LEDs, copper tape, glue sticks, etc.). The school has provided two track-out carts to hold maker materials, with the various shelves and plastic totes labeled for students to find materials they need when self-sourcing project supplies. We have started an "inspiration file" in one of the pull-out drawers to hold magazines and articles related to making and different making-related careers.
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Purpose:Dr. Oliver's weekly update of activities in the iNEST Maker Club. Archives
April 2019
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