At long last, students on Tuesday 4/26/16 began their work with the club's first non-consumable, project hardware in the form of LittleBits and SnapCircuit kits. These are the first two hardware sets that were ordered from the grant, to be followed with LEGO Mindstorms kits in the fall, 3D printers, and more. After students filled out their first Burroughs-Wellcome program evaluation forms, Stephanie discussed electrical engineering and shared snippets from a TEDx video where a female engineer discussed the lack of women in the engineering field. Students then logged into GameLab to access either the first LittleBits quest or the first SnapCircuits quest. Four teams worked through a set of provided LittleBits challenges, a fifth team worked on SnapCircuits projects, and a sixth team worked with a Web-based circuitry game.
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Purpose:Dr. Oliver's weekly update of activities in the iNEST Maker Club. Archives
April 2019
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