Last week, our Hardware Friday workshop was a bit weird: Family Night was over, but this was still session one, and on Monday (5/11) started a new four-week session. Despite this weird place, something wonderful happened. Miriam, Kenwood’s librarian, had another engagement to attend and Amy, Kenwood’s volunteer coordinator who had recently begun working with us, […]
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On Urbana’s last school out day (March 6th), Community Ambassador at UNCC, Hailley, led two workshops that let elementary students begin to think more deeply about how films are made and stories are told. (more…)
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Sticker Creation at Champaign Public Library Teen Space
On Friday, Community Ambassadors Sarah and Kim, worked with the Champaign Public Library teens to design stickers for their computer cart. At first, Sarah worked with the teens to choose a color scheme for their space. The teens ended up deciding on a light blue, red, silver, and black (in line with the Captain America […]
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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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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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Of Dinosaurs and Polar Bears — Girls Lead at Kenwood
It was Girls Lead Thursday, and we were running a Scratch storytelling workshop focused on starting our stories right. I had often observed students with rather elegantly scripted stories, involving three or more characters with several lines of dialogue and spanning multiple backgrounds. But when the story was over, they would manually click and drag […]
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Women in Computer Science — Discussion at Kenwood
Kenwood Tech Time decided to have a “girls only” day. By the most recent formal count (numbers are growing rapidly), we had twelve boys and seven girls at Tech Time. That’s not terrible – but it’s not 50/50. So Miriam (Kenwood’s school librarian) had a few girls make posters to spread around the school announcing Girls’ […]
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