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 make a holiday card; one they could print off that day and give to whomever they wanted.
The center was abuzz when the students arrived from school and saw someone new in the computer lab. After many questions and doing a little homework, we gathered up around 15 students to participate in the workshop.
The kids really took it from there. They weren’t afraid to experiment with various brushes and looked to each other or another adult when they ran into roadblocks. Once their card was finished, we saved it onto a flash drive and then printed it off. Many great cards were made (see some in the gallery of photos below). Overall, Hailley believes that this workshop was great community building; she firmly believes it brought the center together and got them excited about all the various projects they could do in their new computer lab.
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