Mar 6, 2024
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New York Hall of Science
Hello Internet :) Over the weekend, the Saturday Explainers created this very adorable animation of how the dinosaurs possibly came and left the Earth. The amazing part of this particular piece for me is seeing how it transitioned from a solo project to a team collaboration- all because of a single character and the endless possibilities of story telling. The narrative animations have been a popular approach to stop motion animation, where the visitors spend time designing their own characters, dialogues through speech bubbles, backgrounds and storylines. If you have not had a chance to stop in and create your own stop motion animation, this weekend is our last stop motion animation weekend from 1:30-3:00 pm and 3:30-5:00 pm in NYSCI’s Maker Space!!!!! Come! Join us!
-Trishna
DreamYard Maker Institute 2017
Hello everyone! Megan here!
Over schools out week I had the opportunity to be a part of an intensive, three-day training for maker educators at DreamYard in the Bronx. During this training we focused on the Making through an art-based social justice lens. Makers from all over NYC and as far as Philadelphia linked up in the South Bronx to deepen the understanding of their teaching and making practices, share knowledge with one another, and most importantly, to have fun!
The first two days were spent discussing what making is, and who are makers. Would you consider figures like W.E.B. DuBois, Madam C.J. Walker, or Grandmaster Flash as makers? If you look closely enough, you can see that their biggest contributions and creative works were a result of them overlapping their community’s needs with their personal resourcefulness and creative expression. In many ways, they are all makers!
As participants of the DreamYard Maker Institute, we learned how to rapidly develop and prototype new workshops, taught one another new skills, and learned how other local Makers/Artists (Like Salome Asega and By The Flamingos) have infused their cultures and identities into creative technologies. In our peer-to-peer skill-share I even got to teach my colleagues how to use TinkerCAD and how to do a nail art technique called water marbling.
The Maker Jam was the wrap-up to the Maker Institute. In our own small groups, we developed quick, 10-15 minute workshops in which the visitor could answer a framework question. It was really cool to see how each group used rapid prototyping to ask and answer questions like “Who am I?”, “What is my superpower?”, “Where am I from?”, and “Who do I admire?” One of my personal favorites was the “Hometown Photobooth” where my compatriot Ella showed me how to utilize greenscreen technology to combine a photo of me (or my disembodied head) with a photo of my hometown (or outer space).
What I liked the most was that the DreamYard focuses on culturally relevant teaching. I also appreciated that both NYSCI and DreamYard actively work to broaden the definition of “making” and who is seen as a “maker.” I hope that one day I can create Science Ambassadors workshops that honor prominent local figures and their contributions to the Maker Movement.
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Hi everyone, this is Megan here with a quick update on how things have been going lately in the Maker Space. We have just concluded the Science Ambassadors Kick Off Week! “Science Ambassadors” is a new initiative by The New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) where the museum’s hours are extended during the school year in order to offer additional after-school programming to its neighboring communities. During the kickoff week, the Maker Space debuted a workshop called “Pixel Projects”, which is a small variety of activities where visitors can translate a pixelated drawing into a Lego® picture or a cross-stitched embroidery, or both. This activity was especially fun because the visitors could start wherever they felt most comfortable and then move onto a different, but related activity. As for me, I have been promoted from Maker Space Resident to Maker Space Instructor to support NYSCI's new initiative. My responsibilities include developing, implementing, and facilitating all of the after-school programming. This means two things: we’ll have a new Maker Space Resident very soon, and our blog will be updated more frequently! And as always, if you’re ever in the area, feel free to stop by NYSCI to check out the Maker Space or the Science Ambassadors program!
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