Making as Learning for Youth Nottawa Township (San Antonio, TX)

Making as Learning for Youth Nottawa Township

Looking to add open-ended hands-on learning to the youth in your school library community center troop or civic group The maker movement offers youth the opportunity to explore the intersection of STEM technology design aesthetics creativity and prototyping. In this workshop you ll become immersed in exploring the facets of the maker movement. Over the course of 3 days you will meet fellow maker mentors examine multiple possible entry points for developing or refining your maker program identify pathways for discovering maker and community needs design and explore possible programming ideas for formal and informal learning and grapple with how to mesh together open-endedness assessing them fairly You ll engage in a variety of hands-on activities from creating with recycled materials to 3D printing and modeling robots to LED bulbs so you can test out multiple materials and tools to see which fit your community best....