Summer is here…. and with it, I am teaching a few summer STEM camps for the University of Mississippi. Some of the camps have more of a maker focus, which makes for some fun projects. One of the projects my campers were working on was a Rube Goldberg machine.
At the beginning of the school year, I had a DonorsChoose.org grant written for some Elegoo Arduino kits. I asked my parents to help support our classroom and handed out instructions on how to give via Donors Choose. They stepped up and funded it, and they funded it quickly. Shortly after the start of school, our new Arduino kits were here… and they were awesome.
Continue readingEveryone wants a 3D printer. Let’s face it, the ‘cool’ factor is strong with kids on this one. In the process of building our makerspace, I really wanted to get a 3D printer for the classroom. The issue was going to come down to money.
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Christmas has come and gone. You know how the drill goes. All too often, the gifts that we buy for our kids get used for a bit, then get tossed aside. Every now and then, we parents hit a gold mine. I managed to hit mine this time with the Soyan 3D pen.