Thanks to Mariam for organizing and leading this week's maker table in the school lunch room. These periodic lunch tables give club members a chance to lead making events for their peers, to help in developing leadership skills. This week's make activity involved creating light-up masks using soft circuitry.
After a one-week break due to mentor travel, the club resumed this past Tuesday, December 13th for its last meeting of the semester. Stephanie and Val brought some new fabric supplies and two sewing machines, so the girls could continue working on holiday pillows. Mariam worked with a group of girls who will be co-leading an upcoming lunch table to construct light-up masks. Dr. Oliver and his colleague Dr. Evans finished work this week on a new grant that, if funded, would provide further undergraduate mentors to support more in-depth student inquiry work in the maker club. We hope everyone has had a fun semester, and wish you a happy holiday break!
This past Tuesday, Nov 29th, at the iNEST maker club, we welcomed two adult visitors--a visiting scholar from Turkey who is studying in the College of Education at NC State, and Stephanie's daughter Val, who set up a sewing machine and helped the students make holiday pillows. Students learned to sew the basic outer structure of a pillow, and then sewed on additional felt shapes and button elements. We were excited this week to see several students diving into the new LittleBits cart that is stocked with four of every bit that LittleBits produces. One student created a LittleBits speaker and was able to play aloud a YouTube video from her laptop, another student worked on the LittleBits catapult quest, and another on the LittleBits backpack-alarm quest. Several students also started the new paper fabrication-origami quest this week, and one took on the challenge of modifying her origami with copper foil tape to install a light-up LED element. See below for pictures of project work:
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Purpose:Dr. Oliver's weekly update of activities in the iNEST Maker Club. Archives
April 2019
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