Summer Making (Part 2) – Woodworking & Installations!
Summer making in the Creativity Lab was wildly successful. It lasted 5 weeks and taught more lessons than can be contained in one digestible blog post so here are a few bites-sized morsels: The impact of concentrated making over time on students is visible. The results include increased confidence, creativity, and resourcefulness. Talking about what…
Shaping, Cutting, Connecting for Kids
What do words like woodshop and woodwork bring to mind? For me, it’s always been the hand and power tools one uses that I think of most easily. For kids in some of my afterschool classes, that’s been pretty much the same case. When I asked Kindergartners and 1st and 2nd graders what words came…
Maker Faire: 2014
We were one school among 1,000 Makers and 100,000 people who came out for Maker Faire. This is what it looked like.
Making in School 