Today in the iNEST maker club, students were engaged in a variety of fabrication projects from 3D printing to 3D pens to sewing to digital embroidery. Most students continued to work in TinkerCad to create 3D designs. Fifteen designs were placed in the new shared drive created for 3D models. Mentors will be working on printing those this week for distribution at next week's meeting. We had our first beta tester try out the new 3D pens today, with some success creating simple geometric shapes. Stephanie brought her sewing machine and worked with several girls on pillow designs, while Deborah got out the digital embroidery machine and worked with several girls to embroider their initials and graphic designs on scarves. Beyond these fabrication activities, club members were observed today working on several other projects including LittleBits and programming games in Scratch using the new Scratch coding cards. Club mentors will be meeting soon to plan our upcoming presentations about the club at the NC-TIES state technology conference in March. We had a student showcase presentation accepted and will taking five club members to the conference to show off their work with various circuits (copper foil, conductible ink, and conductible thread). We also had a regular presentation accepted where club mentors will discuss the first year of iNEST. We have come a long way since starting the club about one year ago with 43 different quests and 11 badges populated into our 3D GameLab learning environment for students to try out, and more quests planned this spring for programmed Sphero balls, Knex construction kits, and music activities with LittleBits.
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Purpose:Dr. Oliver's weekly update of activities in the iNEST Maker Club. Archives
April 2019
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