Post written by Jeff Ginger, who helped facilitate the purchase of equipment for our grant sites. Fall semester has been a rush of infrastructure development at all of the DCEO sites. We quickly established computer labs and comprehensive software arrangements for each location so they could support programming of many kinds, from computer basics to […]
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Ornament Workshop at Champaign Public Library
Sarah, our Community Ambassador at Champaign Public Library, led an ornament workshop right before the holiday season this year. The workshop had teens create cutouts using the Silhouette machines to decorate their clear orb ornaments. They could also add fake snow to make the ornament personalized. To prepare for the workshop, Sarah encouraged the teens who […]
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Graphic tablet Christmas card workshop at UNCC
UNCC was visited this week (December 16, 2014) by Jeff from the Fab Lab along with several students from his Makerspace 499 class to host a graphic tablet workshop. Our target audience of students were fourth and fifth graders. Our hope was to teach them a little about the tablets and also allow them to […]
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UNCC gets a new ethernet switch box
One of the challenges UNCC faced was having new computers but not were hooked up to the internet. The main ethernet switch box had at least four ports that did not work and the router that interacted with one side of the lab wasn’t big enough to accommodate enough of the lab. Though our grant […]
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Ardunio Snowman at Teen Open Lab
We are reaching some of the most underserved youth in our community to develop the core computational thinking skills needed for them to participate fully in STEM-related fields. One of the events was making dancing snowmen with Arduino microcontrollers and servos, which Community Ambassador, Kim Naples, did extensive preparation for. She sought the assistance and […]
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Another nine computers installed at UNCC
In week 10 of Hailley’s time at UNCC, Jeff delivered another nine computers to be installed. He brought them to the center on Friday and was welcomed by a handful of elementary students, eager to install some computers. As the adults brought in the equipment, we had the elementary students place a USB keyboard, mouse, […]
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Game Design with RPG Maker VX Ace at Champaign Public Library
Written by Sarah, the Community Ambassador at the Champaign Public Library Game Design has become very dear to a few of the kids at Champaign. A dedicated trio has formed, and their interest in game design led them both to attend workshops on other topics and to try new lessons. I was pleasantly surprised when […]
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First computer install at UNCC
On Friday, September 26th, the Urbana Neighborhood Connection Center had a visit from Jeff at the Fab Lab, who delivered 12 new computers. These 12 replaced half of the UNCC computer lab, whose computers were either running slow or not working at all. The best part of this installation, was that Jeff, and Hailley, […]
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