Outreach Committee

The goal of the outreach gaggle is to _______________________. We do this by _______________. This page is a resource for members of the gaggle to share ideas and activities.

The Outreach Gaggle is led by Barbara Davis

Upcoming events

• April 18, Maker Monday
• May 2, Maker Monday
• May 15, 2:00pm Outreach Gaggle Meeting

Field Trip Notes

Taking a look at what other makerspaces do, other organizations that run cool demos or classes, or STEM related summer camps. We intend to gather ideas and techniques to use or improve in our own outreach.

Cosmosphere/Hutch Makerspace

Coming Soon! Planning on Google Groups at the moment.

Activities

Listing of all the activities that have been brainstormed, planned, or executed.

What Each Activity Needs

There are four basic things that each activity page needs to be complete.

1. Materials and Equipment List. This should indicate whether an item is consumable in the case of make'n'take activities, just need a couple (think: wire cutters for brushbots), or are permanent resources that may need review/prep (like the Mindstorms robots)
2. Preparation instructions. Details on how to put together kits, including how to prep each part.
3. Presentation instructions. How do you put together a brushbot? A high powered rocket?
4. STEM application. What's the science and math motivating this activity?

Backpack Kits

These will be small kit projects for make'n'take at fairs or expos, and demonstrations less than 20 minutes. Includes an inventory sheet and instruction sheet (laminated). Stocked with parts to do a number or students

One-Off Classes

These are activites that need a dedicated classroom space, whether it is at a school, a camp, or right at MakeICT. These can probably be put together as a kit, but they will teach a single, self contained topic or project from start to finish.

Courses

These will be anything that will span multiple days, whether that is a single weekend like a summer camp, or one day a week for several weeks. Each day will build on knowledge and skills from the previous days. These probably won't lend themselves well to "kits" and will likely require a skilled instructor. It's a given that these will require dedicated classroom space.

Title	Classroom Req'd	Make'n'Take	Duration(Minutes)	Grade Level
3D Printer Demo	No	No	-	Any
Brush Bots	No	Yes	5	K-2
Intro to Soldering	Yes	Yes	120	Any
Marker Bots	No	Yes	5	K-2
Scratch Programming Event	Yes	No	Day	Any
Pom-Pom Shooters	Yes	Yes	60	K-4
Potato Gun	Yes	Yes	180	4-8
High Powered Rockets	Yes	Yes	60	2-8
Jacobs Ladder Demo
Hyperbaric Chamber Demo
Processing Event
Little Bits Build
Styrofoam Build-its
Styrofoam Kinetic Sculpture
Dr. Goddard's Lab Stuff
Straw Rockets
Squishy Circuits
Stomp Rocket
Water Rocket
Learn to Solder
Scratch Programming