SWE WOW Is a Girl Scouts event for them to get some hands on experience in Engineering. They built catapults and worked with a solar sail. Our session was electricity/circuits. The older ones lit up an LED with a battery, then used alligator clips to connect it. Next we code a micro:bit to turn the… Read more »

Spent an evening at the Crawford County 4-H office helping them (7 people) learn how to use their laser. We utilized the noun project for images and Cuttle for design. At the end we learned about using the camera to scan a hand drawn image.

We participated in the North Daviess Elementary School STEM night. There were about 100 students that came through. We had LED’s & batteries out, as well as some pipe cleaners. But the big draw was everyone wanted to make a button. It was NON-STOP button making…with a little bit of reading mixed in (they had… Read more »

Feb 17th was the Monroe County 4-H Expo at the Fairgrounds. Lots of tables showing interested youngsters what 4-H is all about and the myriad of things you can do in it. I had an activity table for youngsters to do a “make & take”. Just the typical pipe cleaners for bracelets and LED’s/batteries to… Read more »

February 17th was the annual Black Market by Bloomington Parks & Recreation Department. They have a mix of small black business vendors and some activity tables. We had a few things out for people to work with. We had plus-plus building parts and pipe cleaners. We had some 3D printed articulated animals and a stop… Read more »

I went over to Columbus Ohio for the annual Ohio Educators Technology Conference (OETC). There were a few makerspace sessions and a couple of Maker playgrounds that I helped out at. One group was showing shrinky dinks and using a heat gun to shrink them I reconnected with some people and had some good education… Read more »

I was hoping to write this post after I did these activities…but ordering at the University has really gotten slow (4+ weeks and still things aren’t in, some haven’t gotten through the whole process…) 1) Shaving cream sun painting : from https://www.sciencefriday.com/educational-resources/shaving-cream-sun-model/ paper plates shaving cream yellow food coloring red food coloring toothpicks scrap cardboard/squeegee… Read more »

I spent one class period each with 3 – 5th grade classes to code the micro:bit and neopixels to send some morse code (you also need 3 alligator clip wires). I thought that using number of lights would be easier than how long a light was on would be easier to understand dot/dash.  In one… Read more »

I got to spend 3 days at South Central Jr/Sr High in Elizabeth, Indiana. I worked with a variety of teachers and students. We started with makey-makey in the Environmental Science class where they were working on food webs. They picked one omnivore, carnivore, herbivore, producer, decomposer. They either made a model or drawing, then… Read more »

The Indiana Connections Career Academy (an online charter school) asked us to be a part of their event at the event center of Grand Park (there were several exhibitors, including a disc golf hole). It was a 4 hour time window where there students could come together from across Indiana to meet up and learn… Read more »