Workshops

In this free introductory workshop, the Eco Innovate team taught the fundamental environmental, hardware, and software components of our founding Birdboxers project, even featuring climate-change guest speakers; the whole event itself will be set in a gorgeous nature preserve, Tule Ponds! Participants had the opportunity to not only learn about how technology can be used to help the natural world, but actually participate in it, programming and designing their own population-tracking birdboxes to explore the incredible fields of STEM and environmental advocacy.

Throughout this comprehensive 3-day camp in collaboration with Math Science Nucleus, students learned about environmental issues, the basics of coding/software development in bash/raspberry pi, engineering with wood, and prototyping beyond what they may have explored in the Winter Workshop. They also had an opportunity to design and create their very own completed bird box FROM SCRATCH which was implemented in real schools and parks!! Of course, they also had chances to make friends and get to know their like-minded peers :)

At this hardware intensive camp, high schoolers worked alongside our Eco Innovate hardware team to engineer, design, and create 20 wooden Birdboxes for implementations- start to finish. They gained valuable insight into the tools that modern woodworkers/engineers use, as well as collaborated with their peers on assembling their products! Additionally, we offered SERVICE HOURS!

Throughout this free online 3-day camp, students not only learned about all the software behind Eco Innovate’s Raspberry Pi programming, but also practiced using their coding talents for environmental applications! Regardless of their coding skill level, they had an opportunity to get a deeper understanding of how our microprocessors’ internal logic functions, delving into python, BASH (shell scripting), and fundamental electrical engineering principles as well. This course was also designed to give students the project development background they need to tackle any issues they hope to solve in their own lives, culminating in a group capstone project where students ideated and coded their own Raspberry Pi x Sustainability project pitches!