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Ornament Workshop at Champaign Public Library

By on December 20, 2014 in Champaign Public Library, Workshop

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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UNCC gets a new ethernet switch box

By on December 13, 2014 in Urbana Neighborhood Connection Center

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

By on December 5, 2014 in Teen Open Lab, Workshop

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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Game Design with RPG Maker VX Ace at Champaign Public Library

By on October 23, 2014 in 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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Silhouette machine and teens at Teen Open Lab

By on October 13, 2014 in Teen Open Lab, The Urbana Free Library

One of Kim’s favorite tools to work on at The Urbana Free Library’s Teen Open Lab is the Silhouette cutting machine. Teenagers use this tool to make stickers, cards, drawings, and patterns for the sewing machine. One day, two middle school girls came in that wanted to make stickers for their school folders. They had […]

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First computer install at UNCC

By on September 27, 2014 in Urbana Neighborhood Connection Center

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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