Computational Making: Where STEM and Computer Science Meets Hip Hop

Our work is situated at the intersection of STEM and computer science, hip hop, and Identity. Students are provided opportunities to engage in making as they create artifacts that are found in hip hop culture using STEM concepts and principles.

Our project explores how young people take up computational making practices as they engage in STEM-rich computing and making. These computational making practices have been empirically derived from our studies as people engage in making with digital and analog materials and tools. These are not practices that happen in isolation, rather people use them in concert as a constellation practices to work through their projects.