I have spent several days at Linton Stockton working with Elementary and JH & HS. Sometimes one teacher, sometimes one or 2 students, sometimes a classroom of kids on a variety of skills/tools. We did some laser testing and prototyping of engraving a stock cutting board. Then we showed 2 kids how to design and… Read more »

I went to Owen Valley High School to work with a group of makers during their “Patriot Time”. Mrs. L & I chose “DIY ceramic coasters”.  Which is putting a vinyl sticker on a square/round ceramic tiles, then sealing it. I took my 2 Cricut Joy and they have their large Cricut. I showed then… Read more »

I spent 2 afternoons with a few students at Shoals HS getting started with the micro:bit. We started with basics of getting emojis to show and using buttons A & B to make different ones and different timings. We then went to connecting an LED and coding it to do various blinks. The final thing… Read more »

Recently I have been down at the Orleans Public Library. We have been talking for a while about a makerspace in the library. I wanted to get them started with 3D printing and using a Cricut, get them some hands on experience and training, so I loaned them each of those and did an afternoon… Read more »

I spent Patriot Hour with 11 students in the library making some winter themed paper circuits. I like using the templates from makerspaces.com because there is a template on the back of the coloring page. They all did great. We even talked a little Chemistry with conductors and Periodic Table.

I was helping out at a couple of FabLabs and Makerspaces in the region.  The big thing we did at one was design and laser cut a wooden ornament for each PreK student. They will sign their name to the ornament. We also were doing some order checking because a materials order got all messed… Read more »

I have a school with some First Graders that would like to build a small cardboard community. I am thinking something like a  Christmas village at this time of year, but not necessarily. I created some laser templates to cut out. I did a 4″x4″x4″ with a peak roof, a 4″x4″x8″ with a peak roof,… Read more »

Yes, you can laser cut a rubber stamp. Here is a nice video about using an XTool laser and XTool Creative Space to create the stamp. They do the same image as a positive and a negative. For a positive stamp, you engrave away the material around your image, leaving the image raised. For the… Read more »

I met with a local homeschool group to do some coding (“turtle art”). There were 13 students (mixed ages) and I have 6 laptops, so they partnered an older with a younger and had 1 triple. We utilized MIT’s block coding site . I have a handout with simple steps to get going. The coding… Read more »

I headed to Crawford County Community Schools to work with 6 elementary teachers (2 from each school) and 1 administrator. They just got some Bambu A1’s and wanted to learn about using them. When I got there, they were already assembling their printers (1st snow made travel slooooww) After getting the printers to do their… Read more »