After the holiday break and a week off for the ice storm, the maker club started back up this past Tuesday, January 17th, 2017. Students found six new quests in the 3D GameLab learning environment tied to new technology the club acquired over the break--a set of four LIX 3D pens, and two LulzBot 3D printers. Dr. Oliver introduced students to TinkerCad for creating simple 3D designs, and students spent the day working through a set of TinkerCad tutorials. Four students got far enough along to create their own original designs in TinkerCad (i.e., personalized key chains, luggage tags), and our first student design was sent to the new LulzBot 3D printer through Cura software. While students were working on TinkerCad tutorials, Dr. Oliver 3D-printed a .STL model file of a dinosaur, so students could see how the printer worked.
In the background of this meeting, club mentors are working on selecting a set of active club members to represent the club at the upcoming NC-TIES conference in Raleigh. Supporting the club's leadership goals, a set of students will showcase their makerspace work at this state technology conference on Friday, March 3rd. Mentors have also started planning for the club's spring field trip to the Burlington mini-maker faire, to be held on Saturday, April 22nd. Also supporting leadership goals, Mariam is currently working on the club's third lunch table of the year to be held in February. Students will be sharing their knowledge of paper circuitry to build light-up cards with their peers in the school lunch room. Comments are closed.
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Purpose:Dr. Oliver's weekly update of activities in the iNEST Maker Club. Archives
April 2019
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