The most popular game at UNCC during Free Time is Roblox. Similar to Minecraft, Roblox uses Lego-like figures to move around thousands of games. These games range from “Work at a Pizza Place” to SpongeBob and everything in between. During the past couple of months, I (Hailley) have been working with them to create accounts. […]
Teen Space at Champaign Public Library
Sarah, our Community Ambassador at the Champaign Public Library, passed along some great photos of the Teen Space we wanted to share.
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Two Quarters In — What we’ve been up to
The metrics for the second quarter were due in early January and we are happy to report the following numbers: General Access to computers (unduplicated): * Target proposed in grant: 11325 * Q1 report: 4872 * Q2 report: 4728 * Current total: 9600 Training participants (unduplicated): * Target proposed in grant: 780 * Q1 report: […]
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Kids as Teachers at the Champaign Public Library
Written by Sarah, the Community Ambassador at the Champaign Public Library One thing that I particularly like about Champaign is how willing the kids are to teach what they’ve learned. This is something that happens on a very regular basis, but on Friday one of the librarians said I should absolutely make sure to talk about […]
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Technology and equipment added in 2014
One of our team members, Jeff Ginger, complied a report on the number of computers installed as well as additional technology placed at our sites from August until December 2014. These computers and kits allowed us to continue our programming and build community-based collaborative spaces. We acquired, updated, imaged and installed 83 computers at all […]
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Tinkercad at the Teen Open Lab
A teen (middle school aged) came into The Urbana Free Library’s Teen Open Lab one day looking to 3D print something. Usually, teens go to Thingiverse to find an object that has been designed by someone else. But this boy knew exactly what he wanted to make and wanted to design it himself. Kim, the […]
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First Semester Kit Update
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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