Online Events: Together While Apart

by | Jan 8, 2023 | Events, MakeFashion Edu, Neighborhood Earth, SteamHead Spaces

Written by ChatGPT, Prompt/Edit by Carrie

Over the past two and a half years, our team at SteamHead has had the opportunity to participate in, present at, and even host various online events. While it was a difficult adjustment to go from in-person events to virtual ones, we were grateful for the chance to continue sharing and collaborating with others in the education, maker, and hacker communities.

Through this experience, we have learned a lot about what works well in a virtual setting, some of our top examples are:

  • Big Blue Button conference software builds communities on the fly through new ways for attendees to interact with each other and speakers.
  • Recorded talks coupled with live interaction boosts production quality AND speaker/attendee interaction.
  • Well known but worth a reminder: word clouds, polls, and live surveys (such as Mentimeter) help to engage, and to break up long periods of speech.
  • Virtual environments like Mozilla Hubs can facilitate more interaction between participants.
  • Making recorded talks accessible after a conference can reach new audiences – different styles of people tune in after hours vs those that attend online conferences!

As the world reopens, we are excited to meet in person again, but we are also grateful for the new remote tools and skills we have acquired. We are looking forward to seeing what new opportunities and connections will come from this experience, and we would like to give a shoutout to all the organizers, presenters, and attendees who have made it possible.

Check out these awesome events and organizations here:

Deeper Learning Conference

by | Mar 23, 2021 | Events, Maker Education, Neighborhood Earth

Storytelling through Fashion Technology with MakeFashion Edu

SteamHead is presenting a Deep Dive session at the 2021 Deeper Learning, where they will hold a MakeFashion Edu workshop. Participants will discover ways in which they can reach all students through the exploration of fashion tech. They will work in teams to go through a design thinking process (based on Stanford D-School), ideate and create a meaningful fashion tech piece using various levels of technology and revise with self and peers. The Deep Dive will end by exhibiting all the pieces in a virtual gallery and a ready to share fashion lookbook.

 

Maker Camp Live! Light Up Dino Spikes Class

by | Aug 29, 2020 | Events, Great Projects, MakeFashion Edu, Mike

The SteamHead MakeFashion Edu Team joined forces with Make Media and participated in their Maker Camp Live Series. We broadcast this video out to all their channels, and we hope some kids, parents, and kids at heart enjoy this fun, light-up dino spike project! Thanks to Mike Shaw for hosting us in his home studio and producing this project.

In the class, we teach how to up-cycle plastic for use in wearable tech (and anything else you can imagine) and made dino spikes, then we walked the students through basic circuitry and how to use as MOSFET as a kind of switch that uses the human body as a conductor to turn the lights on and off.

Thanks to Make and Maker Camp. Check out the rest of this great program at http://makercamp.com/

Dino Spikes: https://makercamp.com/event/makefashionedu-0828/

Materials from around the house (not shown on Dino Spikes Amazon list):

  • Plastic shopping bags (1- 4)
  • 1 piece cardboard, approximately 2 inches by 5 inches

Materials (also shown on Dino Spikes Amazon list):

  • Parchment paper, 2 pieces approximately 8 inches x 11 inches or larger
  • 9 Jumper test leads with alligator clip ends
  • 1 Mosfet
  • 3 pieces Aluminum foil, approximately 2 inches square
  • 1-2 meters fairy wire (preferably broken – we’re going to hack it!)

The battery holder might be included with your fairy wire, but if not, get these:

  • 1 Double AA battery holder – holds three
  • 3 Double AA batteries

Dino Spikes Amazon List

Tools:

  • 1 Ironing board or thick towel + flat surface
  • 1 Iron
  • 1 pair of Scissors
  • 1 Marker
  • 2-3 Circular objects around the home to trace in varying sizes (cups, bowls, vases, etc)
  • Adhesive: Stapler, tape, or hot glue (whatever’s at home)

Optional Decoration Supplies:

  • Paint, Markers
  • Ribbon, glitter, gems, aluminum foil
  • Decorative small items to repurpose around the home

Optional Attachment to Wearable and Body:

  • Velcro/ velcro dots / safety pins
  • Soldering set up
  • Glove (got ones that are missing their buddy?)
  • Ribbon, and/or string

 

School Maker Faire

by | Sep 28, 2019 | Events

Call for Makers!!! There is one week left to sign up for a table to present your incredilble creativity at the School Maker Faire: Nanshan. Come as you are… share maker projects, drama performances, art, or a school project you are currently doing. But sign up now!!! Please follow the QR code above. The deadline to sign up has been extended to Friday September 27th.

The School Maker Faire is the greatest show and tell on earth – a family – friendly shocase of invention and creativity. Schools and child education organizations can sign up to share their maker projects. The event last 3 hours and will be an interactive exploration of technology and innovation by our young makers.

Makers come to show their creations. Attendees come to glimpse the future, and to learn to become makers themselves, for more information watch this video:

https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDA1NzgxMjAyOA==.html

When? November 16th 2019!

Where? Seaworld, Shenzhen, China

Design Society at Seaworld Culture and Arts Center, a beautiful museum space

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