It started as an after-school programming side project for kids at the Urbana Free Library and eventually turned into 6 years of summer camps and a series of NSF grants based on informal learning and science simulation!
PD for technology educators and information professionals, including librarians, teachers and community engagement specialists. Includes substantial work internationally.
I've been conducting amateur recording and remixing with singers and bands since 2003 by using arrays of condenser mics, DAWs with ASIO, sound synth libraries on MIDI keyboards and more. Here is a selection.
We needed a way to bring the Fab Lab out into the community so I established a model that was low-cost, mobile, scalable and education-oriented that has been seeded in dozens of locations.
Some hack'n'fix projects don't work out. An intern accidentally dropped one of our camera lenses and I tried to fix it - and discovered bent metal and insanely complex internals make it pretty hard to do!
As a small child I remember the weather in Illinois being quite different. Everyone I know talks about global warming as an accepted reality and something that’s bigger than our individual anecdotal experiences of climate but I can’t help get over being hung up on my personal relationship to the weather, it feels more meaningful than charts and graphs. I decided to see how my memory matches up with data.
