This week in the iNEST Maker Club, we welcomed Christine Sachs, Magnet Coordinator for Reedy Creek Magnet Middle School for the Digital Sciences, and Reedy Creek principal Trent Evans. These administrators are interested in setting up a makerspace at their school, and visited to see our makerspace in action. Mariam worked with several club members today on digital name badges. These volunteer iNEST members will be leading a maker table in the school lunch room next Thursday, as a recruitment tactic to interest more of their peers in the club and making, and as a leadership tactic to give club members a chance to demonstrate their growing STEM expertise. See below for info on this week's field trip... Another recruitment tactic for the club took place earlier today at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. The entire 6th grade class in WYWLA was invited to participate in a grant-sponsored, STEM-oriented field trip to the museum's Nature Science Research Center, and had opportunities to explore hands-on interactive exhibits and visit labs staffed with real scientists and researchers. The intent of this field trip as part of the grant was again to interest students in STEM and the work of the iNEST club, ideally attracting more students to participate in iNEST. Thanks to Mrs. Vick who organized the trip, and other WYWLA teachers who took the time to chaperone with NC State partners Stephanie Grady and Kevin Oliver. Some pics of the day out are shown below:
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Purpose:Dr. Oliver's weekly update of activities in the iNEST Maker Club. Archives
April 2019
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