WHITE OAKS

Monthly Maker Challenge

Calling all White Oaks Makers!

Get ready to get those creative juices flowing, stretch your neurons and let your imagination

run wild! We are introducing the White Oaks Monthly Maker Challenge - where each month

there will be a new challenge posted for you to attempt. Each challenge will be

designed to be age appropriate for K-3 and do-able from home. We will focus on making

sure any required elements are readily available so as not to be a barrier to participation.

Here are the general rules:

The project should be something new to you
You must make something that “does” something
You must make something with little to no help from your parents

--> Try to make a sketch/design of your project before you start the build process and add some measurements to help with building

--> Build a rough prototype whenever possible (it doesn’t have to be pretty, but it should give you an idea of what it will look like)

Create the final project
Take multiple pictures of the project
In a few sentences explain (see template below):

--> What it is and why you wanted to build it?

--> Something you learned during the making of this project

--> Something you can improve for the next time you make it

Submit your write-up and picture(s) of your creation to WOMakerspace@gmail.com

Template for Monthly Maker Challenge Entry

Responses can be handwitten and submitted via PDF or typed up and sent via email.

Name: ____________________________________________

Month:___________________________________________

What did you build and why?

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What is one thing you learned?

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

What is something you will improve next time?

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Message Board:

November 1, 2020:

Thank you so much for all the wonderful entries from our very first challenge - October's "Spooky Bridge Challenge"!! There were some incredibly creative ideas from all grade levels! We definitley have some extremely talented arichtects, artists and engineers in the making. Nicely done and we hope you all had a Happy Halloween!

November's challenge has now been posted - please check it out and happy building!

January 4, 2021:

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Wow - those Turkey Hideouts were AMAZING!

We have some really creative Makers at White Oaks- I am sure the turkeys appreciated it! We had a couple of hideouts posted late so please be sure to take another look at the fun videos!

We took a break for December given the sort month, but are back in action in 2021 and excited to see what you all come up with for the next challenge.

January's challenge has now been posted - have fun!

February 7, 2021:

Posting this one a bit late- but we had to delay a bit for Groundhog Day on Feb 2nd!

We had some really awesome instruments submitted with the January challenge- hearing the music you all are making is so much fun! Thank you to everyone who participated!

WHITE OAKS

Monthly Maker Challenge

Calling all White Oaks Makers!

Get ready to get those creative juices flowing, stretch your neurons and let your imagination

run wild! We are introducing the White Oaks Monthly Maker Challenge - where each month

there will be a new challenge posted for you to attempt. Each challenge will be

designed to be age appropriate for K-3 and do-able from home. We will focus on making

sure any required elements are readily available so as not to be a barrier to participation.

Here are the general rules:

The project should be something new to you

You must make something that “does” something

You must make something with little to no help from your parents

--> Try to make a sketch/design of your project before you start the build process and add some measurements to help with building

--> Build a rough prototype whenever possible (it doesn’t have to be pretty, but it should give you an idea of what it will look like)

Create the final project

Take multiple pictures of the project

In a few sentences explain (see template below):

--> What it is and why you wanted to build it?

--> Something you learned during the making of this project

--> Something you can improve for the next time you make it

Submit your write-up and picture(s) of your creation to WOMakerspace@gmail.com

Template for Monthly Maker Challenge Entry

Message Board:

November 1, 2020:

November's challenge has now been posted - please check it out and happy building!

January 4, 2021:

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Wow - those Turkey Hideouts were AMAZING!

We have some really creative Makers at White Oaks- I am sure the turkeys appreciated it! We had a couple of hideouts posted late so please be sure to take another look at the fun videos!

We took a break for December given the sort month, but are back in action in 2021 and excited to see what you all come up with for the next challenge.

January's challenge has now been posted - have fun!

February 7, 2021:

Posting this one a bit late- but we had to delay a bit for Groundhog Day on Feb 2nd!

We had some really awesome instruments submitted with the January challenge- hearing the music you all are making is so much fun! Thank you to everyone who participated!

February's challenge has now been posted - have fun!