Makerspace

The MakerSpace at the SRI&ETTC provides opportunities to explore whatever ideas meet the needs of your classroom. Through Open Exploration Days and specified workshops, participants are able to learn more about:

Fabrication and the use of Cricut Design space and the Cricut Maker
Design Thinking
Cardboard and More (MakeDo and Rolodex)
3D Printers, 3D Design, 3D Scanning Claymation, greenscreening and Digital Storytelling
Soft Circuits (eTextiles), paper circuits and
Makey Makey
Little Bits Circuits and Circuit Scribe
Drones
Programming and Hour of Code using Scratch, Tynker, Bitsbox, Bloxels, and more!
K’NEX
Legos and Cubelets modular robots
Ozobots Bits and Evo, Koov, Vorpal, and Root programmable Robots
Finch Robots and Lego Mindstorms EV3
Google Cardboard, Expeditions, and Virtual Reality in the Classroom

...And much more!

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Cardboard Jaws

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Cardboard Engineering in Your MakerSpace

Bring Your Own Cardboard (BYOC) and practice attachment techniques for any budget! There are so many ways to move your students through the engineering design process as they learn how to cut and connect cardboard using simple tools found in most classrooms. Walk away with ideas for your students, an attachment poster, and a self-created project. Target Audience: Grades 2-8.

Paper Engineering in Your MakerSpace

In this workshop participants will learn how to engineer 3D designs with paper, scissors, and tape for the least expensive makerspace ideas ever! Participants will create several projects during this hands-on session and access multiple project ideas that tie in with cross-curricular learning. Target Audience: Grades 2-8.

MakerSpace - Open Exploration

Bring your imagination and creativity! In this exciting and interactive workshop, participants will have the opportunity to discover how schools are integrating “making” into their classrooms and libraries by spending a day exploring with us. Participants will have the opportunity to make, design, program, and play while exploring the elements that comprise a MakerSpace. Participants will also learn how to foster innovation and creativity in all curricula, from STEM to the arts to humanities.

Want to know how to create or expand your own spaces? Are you on a tight budget? This workshop will provide a hands-on, interactive maker’s environment for attendees to explore some of the new digital, high tech, and low-tech fabrication tools used in schools. Participants will leave full of ideas for affordable spaces AND curricular connections in all areas: Arts, STEM, Humanities, and Languages.

In these open sessions, participants will have the opportunity to explore whatever ideas meet the needs of your classroom. Audience: All K-12 Educators.

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MakerSpace - Simple Design Challenges

Learn how to carve out spaces for your students to grow, create and learn from simple design challenges. As innovative designers, students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts, or solving authentic problems. Take away ideas that will allow you to used crowd source materials to challenge your students to MAKE! Participants will leave full of ideas for affordable spaces AND curricular connections in all areas: Arts, STEM, Humanities, and Languages.

Audience: All K-12 Educators.

Microbits

MakerSpace with Micro:Bits

Learn how to write code that controls hardware! Plug the micro:bit into the USB port of your computer, save your code to the micro:bit and immediately see the results of your coding. Learn the basic structures of coding and quickly see the results. The Micro:Bit was designed to encourage students to get actively involved in writing software for computers and to build new things; encouraging students to become producers rather than consumers of media. Audience: Educators, Grades 3-12.

3D Printer

MakerSpace with 3D Printing

What is possible with 3D printing in your MakerSpace? Come find out in our MakerSpace session focusing on 3D Printing! Learn how to create functional items in easy to use CAD software, examine the materials schools use, the working and calibrating of a 3D Printer for successful prints, and the slicing of objects into G-code that the printer understands. In this workshop participants will gain a solid foundation in 3D printing best practices and resources to get your students 3D designing and printing.

Audience: Educators, Grades 3-12.

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MakerSpace with Cricut

Make magic with the Cricut Maker® or Explore Air®. Say goodbye to hand cutting shapes and hello to creating beautiful lettering, shapes and decorations to create a warm, welcoming environment for your students. The possibilities for your classroom include:

Personalize and label student spaces and materials
Sensory paths and directional signage
Centers
Bulletin boards/teaching aides/content boards
Sight words and vocabulary
Classroom norms and reward charts
Makerspace projects that students get to take home
Three-dimensional shapes for geometry nets
Upcycle existing materials
Student-created props for school plays
Enhance creativity in art projects
Make items for fundraising and more

Cricut® works with a variety of materials, such as vinyl, felt, and cardstock. Workshop participants will learn how to setup and connect the Cricut®, learn how to use the Design Space® software, and learn how to utilize the Cricut® resources to organize and engage within the learning environment. Audience: Educators, Grades K-12.

MakerSpace with Programmable Robots

Spend a day with our Robots! In this workshop participants will gain powerful knowledge in STEAM learning (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Math). Participants can experiment with robots like Ozobots, Lego Mindstorms EV3, Finches and Ollies. These robots are machines that can do three things: sense, act and think. Robots are now accessible for students of all ages and abilities and are an engaging classroom tool to support STEAM. Participants will have the opportunity to develop ideas to engage students with robots that students can either build themselves or transform with maker materials. Audience: Educators, Grades 3-12.

Electrical Engineering

MakerSpace with Electrical Engineering - Sewable and Paper Circuits

Create paper and textile circuitry with hands-on activities and see how it successfully engages students in STEM through art and making, and explore teaching resources for your classroom. Paper and textile circuitry are creative learning tools that blend making and personal expression with engineering and technical problem solving. Make personalized, physical artifacts as part of learning to make electronics. Audience: Educators, Grades 3-12.

MakerSpace with Little Bits

In this workshop participants will learn to build prototypes and invent devices to solve real-world problems with technology. Participants will create elaborate moving animatronics that will teach your class to work together to communicate ideas, and give and receive constructive feedback about their inventions. Working with LittleBits can help students develop perseverance and creative confidence as they encounter a problem, struggle with it, and experiment with possible solutions.

Audience: All K-12 Educators.