This week in the iNEST maker club, the students who will be helping out with our accepted "student showcase" presentation at the NC-TIES state technology conference in early March, met with Dr. Oliver to start developing some sample circuit projects for display. This week the girls worked on some conductible ink projects, and next week they will work on some conductible copper foil projects. By the time the conference rolls around, we should have plenty of examples to share with conference attendees. Other club members continued working on a variety of projects this week. A few students worked on sewing projects for Valentine's Day, and Dr. Oliver brought over some new red/white/pink fabric samples and a new digital sewing machine for club use. Other students continued working with TinkerCad, and 9-10 new .STL files were submitted to our shared drive for 3D-printing. The 3D pens continue to be a hot item, and we started a sign-up sheet for students to take turns playing with the 3D pens and manually fabricating intricate objects. Dr. Oliver and Stephanie will be attending a Sphero workshop at the NC State library on Thursday evening, in preparation for the rollout of this new programmed robotics platform in March. The club owns several Spheros now, and club mentors will be learning about and loading related curricular activities into the club's 3D GameLab learning environment soon.
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Purpose:Dr. Oliver's weekly update of activities in the iNEST Maker Club. Archives
April 2019
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