The kids have been devouring materials as we introduce them. They loved using the laser cutter this week to make some modular pieces that could be connected to form different animals and features. They were up and running on the sewing machines. We started playing with light circuits and LEDs that might show up in some of their wearable projects. And, Alana had an excellent lesson introducing arduinos to some of the students that have been  begging to make robots. We were all so impressed that the students understood the basics of this challenging material, and were anxious to think about what else they could do for next steps (Build a remote control robot airplane! Make a hydrolic pump moveable robot hand!).

We are halfway through our sessions, and Are so exciting to see what the kids come up with in the second half!

Since it's Halloween week, we decided to make a room-sized spider web!

We showed the students some precedents of biomimicry in products and buildings today. They had a great time guessing which animal had inspired each object (they disproportionately guessed armadillo for some reason). We’re hoping to inspire some of the students to think of ways  to represent the inspiration from their animal research without making a direct copy or costume of its features.