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With COVID-19 and recent political, economic, and social unrest in the United States heavy on our minds, we revised and updated our format for this summer’s FabPlay Institute. Given Ohio Governor DeWine’s protocols for gatherings and considerations of best practices for any participant’s health and safety, we shifted to a virtual conference format to connect as a community. Our participants collaborated in creating the conference experience, building a flexible and unique format to our meetings, one of the core values we were able to establish last summer for this Institute. Via ZOOM, we offered a mix of networking and community forming, planned prescribed sessions, and unconference-style flow time to allow the space and time to gather and make. To facilitate information gathering and sharing, we built a new website which will live on with an archive of all sessions, collaborative notes documents from those sessions, presenter contact information, and slide decks. The virtual meeting option enabled participants to join for all or part of the Institute and also brought in our first out-of-state attendees (CA & CT) and several Collegiate Faculty as panelists, presenters, or participants.
Numbers:
54 Registered Participants
High attendance was 27 for the “Social Justice in Making Panel”
21 Different schools
3 days of hands on PD and Workshops
1 networking evening/social virtual gathering
Each day concluded with showcases of participants’ projects
8 Hawken Faculty Presenting
Continual support offered from Hawken technology Staff
23 Different Sessions and Workshops
No-fee conference, with no costs leaves Institute account at approx $2000 surplus
Session Topics Include:
Setting up Makerspaces & Fab Labs
Makerspace 301: Advanced Makerspace leaders open dialogue
Social Justice in the Makerspace
Social Justice & Making: Panel, moderated by Darnell Epps
Maker Protocols to Challenge Cultures of Power
PBL in the Elementary Classroom
STEM in the Makerspace
Setting Up For Making At Home
Assessing For Creativity
CS and Computational & Design Thinking
Micro-controllers & Coding (Arduinos, Raspberry PI, Bits)
Electronics & Simple Circuits
Digital Fabrication Tool Set Rotation (Laser Cutter, Vinyl Cutter, CNC Mill, 3D Printing, Embroidery
Participating Schools:
Hawken School
Cleveland Metropolitan School District
Brecksville-Broadview Heights City Schools
Westerville City Schools
Reynoldsburg City Schools
Mandel Jewish School
Tremont Montessori
Orange City Schools
Mayfield City Schools
Hathaway Brown
Laurel School
Amherst City Schools
eHOVE School
St. Matthew’s School
West Geauga Schools
Ruffing Montessori
Daniel Hand HS (CT)
Viewpoint School (CA)
Brentwood School (CA)
Columbia University
Northwestern University
Otterbein University
The Ohio State University
Lorain County Community College
Lakeland Community College HIVE Makerspace
Ignite Project Showcases
The showcase becomes a series of fun and fast 5 minute show-and-tell sessions where presenters have 4 slides to share a project or concept that will bring new and refreshing ideas to the Institute. This is an open invitation for all conference participants to present work at 3:00 on Wednesday and/or Thursday. (5 minutes, 4 slides, 1 Awesome Project)
Wednesday Ignite Slide Deck shares projects that either focus on cultural awareness, speak to diversity and social justice, are school-wide or community based.
Thursday Ignite Slide Deck shares projects from all grade levels that demonstrate the added value of a makerspace and that fully engage students across content areas, connect to content standards, speak to identity and personalization, or are go to projects for digital fabrication
Personal Ignite Slide Deck shares personal projects that you have been working on. We would love to see what our Maker Educators are making.
SuperPower Trading Cards
The institute will open up on Tuesday night with a few extra Superheroes in the room. Design your own SuperPower Trading Card with origins, skills sets, and energizers, to introduce yourself and share contact information with other participants. We can't exchange business cards but we can you to our network of Super-Maker-Heroes.
To get started visit the trading card SuperPower Design Page
Tuesday, July 7th
7:30 - 8:30 EDT Kickoff Evening
Design Your own Fab Play Trading Card
Meet New friends and join an awesome network (Breakout rooms)
Learn more about the schedule of events, sessions and presenters
Wednesday July 8th
Developing a Maker Mindset
9:00 Welcome & Introductions
Pre-Reading The Spirit of Professional DevelopmentCollaborative Session NotesMURAL Weblink
The framework for teaching. thinking, and learning is an essential component of maker-centered education. In this presentation, we will discuss the who, what, how, and why of maker-centered education and offer ideas for helping students develop an empowered disposition towards change.
11:00 Break
11:15 Making as an Act of Representation: A hands-on Protocol to Challenge Cultures of Power - Yerko Sepulveda
Collaborative Session NotesMURAL WeblinkIt is widely believed that students who engage in maker education develop critical and creative thinking to better understand and serve the needs of others. However, it is not a given. An effort to innovate and develop critical pedagogy that nurtures more inclusive, equitable, and just learning spaces is a must in today’s world. The present workshop presents the creation and implementation of a teaching protocol to analyze cultures of power in maker education. This workshop offers the theoretical frameworks used to create the protocol, a step by step process to use the protocol in the classroom, and finally, it will showcase the participants’ experiences during this session.
1:00 Lunch Break
2:00 Makerspace Best Practices Workshop (2 Sessions)
Makerspace 101 - Anna Delia & Sarah Wallace
Slide PresentationCollaborative Session NotesPanel and open discussion for attendees that are newer to the Maker & Fab world. Hear about some guiding philosophies, access to spaces, finding the right machines, room layouts, frugal fab labs, mobile labs and more.
MakerSpace 301 - Open Discussion - Facilitated By Nick DiGiorgio & Corey Rice
Collaborative Session NotesMURAL WeblinkGoogle Slide DeckOpen discussion for advanced users in the Maker & Fab world. Let’s share our best tips and techniques and map out a web of go to resources. Let’s connect with others as we continue to be lifelong makers, always looking to find a different, sometimes better way, to do things.
3:00 Ignite Project Showcase* Part 1:DEPTH
Wednesday Ignite Slide DeckCollaborative Session NotesWe invite you to also share your expertise, experience and maker projects through our Ignite Project Showcases. The showcase becomes a series of fun and fast 5 minute show-and-tell sessions where presenters have 4 slides to share a project or concept that will bring new and refreshing ideas to the Institute. This is an open invitation for all conference participants to present work.
Add your slides to this Wednesday Ignite Slide Deck to share projects that either focus on cultural awareness, speak to diversity and social justice, are school-wide or community based.
4:00 Closing Statements
Thursday July 9th
Strengthening Your Capacities and Skills Sets
9:00 Welcome & Introductions
9:15 Panel: Social Justice in Making: Building our Empathy and Action Skill Sets
Fab Play Resource PageCollaborative Session NotesJoin the conversation as we discuss the ways in which Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice can shape how we show up in this world to new challenges and look for ways to take action. Moderated by Darnell Epps (Hawken School)
Dr. Jessie Sun - Laurel Science Teacher and Director of STEAM Engagement
Jacques P. Jackson - Creative Artist
Leah Jackson -Director, Center for Technology & Invention at Hathaway Brown
Dr. Paula Kay Hooper - Northwestern School of Education and Social Policy
10:00 Break
10:30 Morning Workshops (2 Sessions)
Social Justice in the Makerspace: Creating a More Equitable Makerspace - Leah Jackson, Anna Delia
Collaborative Session NotesSlide Presentation Workshop PrimerPostwork OpportunitiesSTEM in the Makerspaces: Connecting What We Make to Content Standards, Real-World Problems, Careers, and a Passion for STEM
Slide PresentationCollaborative Session Notes11:30-12:15 Un-Conference Sessions
Topics for these breakout sessions will be determined by participants based on interest. We will break into 4-5 rooms for a deeper discussion on topics that are selected.
12:15 Lunch Break
12:45 Main Room - Session Information
12:50 - 1:40 (50 minutes)
PBL & Design Thinking in the K-5 Classroom
Computational Thinking and Design (minds & theory)
1:40 - 2:20 (40 minutes)
Setting Up for Making Safely At Home
Electronics & CS (bits and kits)
2:20-2:50 (30 minutes)
Cardboard Construction
OPEN Room - Un-conference Session
3:00 Ignite Showcase* Part 2: BREADTH
Collaborative Session NotesWe invite you to also share your expertise, experience and maker projects through our Ignite Project Showcases. The showcase becomes a series of fun and fast 5 minute show-and-tell sessions where presenters have 4 slides to share a project or concept that will bring new and refreshing ideas to the Institute. This is an open invitation for all conference participants to present work.
Add your slides to this Thursday Ignite Slide Deck to share projects from all grade levels that demonstrate the added value of a makerspace and that fully engage students across content areas, connect to content standards, speak to identity and personalization, or are go to projects for digital fabrication
Friday, July 10th
Creativity and Refining Your Craft (Skill Sets)
9:00 Welcome
Cultivating creativity is an act of equity. How we define creativity and how we assess for creativity matters. How do we change the power structure of creativity so we can support students in developing this essential disposition? This immersive workshop is designed to help PreK-12 teachers and administrators cultivate, assess, and restore creativity for all. Participants will use thinking routines to build a collective understanding of creativity and explore formative assessment tools that make the process of creativity visible.
MURAL - used during workshopInstructions for Filling In the Mural (Google Doc)Collaborative Notes for this Session
Learning Objectives
Explore research and perspectives on creativity and discuss implications
Understand how to assess for creativity and make the creative process visible
Explore formative assessment tools that encourage learners to approach creativity in a more collaborative, distributed, and equitable way
Apply learning to their own teaching and learning context
Break - The reaming part of the afternoon is a full schedule.
10:30-3:00 Makerspace, Fab Lab Tools, Machines, & Workshops
10:30 - 11:15 (45 minutes)
Laser Cutter Early Users
CNC or Other
Open Conference Options
11:15-12:00 (45 minutes)
3D Printers & TinkerCad - Early Users
Laser Cutter Advanced User
Open Conference Options
12:00 - 12:45 (45 minutes)
Simple Circuits (LED’s Switches, Motors and Electronics Kits
Woodworking & CNC - High School (Sets, Props, Signage, Large Builds, Small Builds, CNC, Shop)
Open Space - "Main Room"
12:45-1:00 Break (15 Minutes)
1:00 - 1:45 (45 minutes)
Vinyl Cutter & Embroidery
Arduino, Microcontroller, and ways to design your own
Open Conference Options
1:45- 2:30 (45 minutes)
Into to 2D Vector Software (Corel, Illustrator, Inkscape)
Advanced 3D Design Software (Onshape, Fusion 360, Sketchup and others)
Open Conference Options
2:30 Closing Session
Join us for the closing session and some new information
& Continued Conversations
Signup to hold your own ZOOM chat hangout rooms
Buckeye Education
STEM
Digital Fabrication
TOPICS
What we can do during this time of uncertainty, injustice, and a pandemic
What ideas we can cultivate during the summer
What Maker Education will look like in the fall?
KEYNOTES
Developing a Maker Mindset
Making as an Act of Representation: A hands-on Protocol to Challenge Cultures of Power
Social Justice in Making: Building our Empathy and Action Skill Sets
Assessing for Creativity
IGNITE
SPECIAL PROJECT SHOWCASESProjects that demonstrate a Maker Mindset
School wide and Community Projects
Diversity, Equity and Social Justice Projects
K-8 & High School Project Showcase
BREAKOUT SESSIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Setting up for Making safely at Home
PBL & Design Thinking in the K-5 Classroom
Improvisational Design & Mindset
Best practices on a Makerspaces & Fab Labs
Elementary Science Integration
Woodshop & Workshops
3D Printers and TinkerCad
Maker-Centered Learning, habits, and dispositions
Digital Fabrication Machines (Laser Cutter, Vinyl Cutter, CNC Mill, 3D Printing)