NASA Make: Challenge 2011 Winners
Houston, we have a … winner!
Education
Maker Education is such a valuable role. These stories will bring you the latest information and tales of maker educators who area spreading the maker mindset. Help others learn how to make things or how to think like a maker at makerspaces, schools, universities, and local communities. The importance of maker education can not be understated. We appreciate our educators.
Hands-on Learning with The SenseBoard Ubiquitous Computing Device
The UK’s Open University is starting a new course called TU100 My Digital Life based around the SenseBoard ubiquitous computing device and Sense programming environment, a derivative of the Scratch programming language developed at MIT Media Lab. [via /.]
Using a Glue Gun To Teach Injection Molding
Interesting idea from the UK’s Mindsets online. I haven’t found any pictures or video of the actual process or its products, so it may be one of those many brainstorms that turns out to be, ah, well…let’s just say “more interesting as an idea than in practice.” Still, I am intrigued.
Adventures in Android ADK Development: Getting Started
Due to my excitement about using the Arduino hardware Accessory Development Kit (ADK) that Google gave me, I’m diving into Android development for the first time. Mind you, I’m not a programmer. I have experience developing MEL scripts for Maya (CG animation software) and Arduino coding, but these are both simpler environments than the full-blown […]
Pittsburgh Museum MakeShop: “It’s Working”
In April, I visited the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh and met with Executive Director Jane Werner and her staff. They were excited to show me their MakeShop, a place inside the museum where anyone can make something. Jane told me that the museum serves families and we talked about how it was important to connect not just with kids but also their parents and grandparents. This is how we get making re-introduced into the home.
Lemelson-MIT Program’s Fifth Annual EurekaFest (June 16-18)
The Lemelson-MIT Program’s fifth annual EurekaFest is taking place Thursday, June 16 through Saturday, June 18 in Boston, MA. This three day event will bring together innovators of all ages, including 14 teams of high school-age inventors. The aim is to inspire the next generation of leaders in sustainable technology.
The Alkali Metal Series, Reacting with Air and Water
If I understand the annotations on this, YouTuber ironnica’s only posted video, correctly, the footage was produced by a New Jersey educational media company in 1991, and the delightfully British narration more recently by somebody associated with the UK’s Open University. In any case, it is a perfectly concise, interesting, and entertaining demonstration of the increasing reactivities of the group I metals lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, and cesium.
