A little while back we helped high school Computer Science teach Jeff Solin spec out a maker lab for his school. Many months and lots of sweat later, the Innovation and Creation Lab is up and running and Jeff's students are making a lot of awesome projects.
Here's a vent cover one of the students designed with Jeff's face on it:
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The first part of this year's curriculum focused on the laser cutters, with students starting out making cubic boxes and moving to freeform projects from there:
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Inventables' Tait Leswing was on hand to make sure all the machines were in good working order.
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We're looking forward to seeing more as Jeff and his students get comfortable with the machines and really start to dig in.
Here's a vent cover one of the students designed with Jeff's face on it:
The first part of this year's curriculum focused on the laser cutters, with students starting out making cubic boxes and moving to freeform projects from there:
Phase II involves each student designing a 6"x6" tile in Easel and then carving it out on a Shapeoko:
Here's Jeff showing the first completed tile to the class. Once all the pieces are finished, they'll be assembled into a grid and displayed in the room. As you can tell, he was pretty excited about it:
