9/26/2017. In preparation for the upcoming Halloween season, students began working on Wintercroft paper masks today. This project will take a few weeks to complete. Students were able to choose from 8-9 different mask templates purchased for the club. Students were asked to pay attention to how the masks were constructed with geometric angles, as they will be working with TinkerCad software during spring semester and will be able to design their own geometric objects for 3D printing. Each club member was assigned a file folder in the club cabinets this week to store their continuing project work, and project work leftover from last year was cleaned out and/or saved to the club's "inspiration file" as exemplars of particular projects (e.g., soft circuits, paper circuits). The club welcomed Eleanor Hasse this week, the external evaluator for the project, who observed students and will be writing a summary report for the project's funding agency--Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Dr. Oliver is finalizing the 2016-17 annual report to the Burroughs Wellcome Fund which is due this week, September 30. Students were sent home with "institutional review board" permission forms this week for parents to review/sign, allowing the university staff sponsoring this project to survey students about changing STEM interests and interests in the different technology areas sponsored by the project.
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Purpose:Dr. Oliver's weekly update of activities in the iNEST Maker Club. Archives
April 2019
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