This is our fifth year of meeting
together to do projects. We have evolved over the years from a few kids working on projects at kitchen tables into an all-ages group of students, tinkerers and expert mentors who
meet twice a month in a warehouse space and work on several group and
independent projects.
Yet our roots are in the Young Makers
arm of the Maker Faire, and our group is still tied to many of those
values:
- choosing a project that is interesting and challenging
- taking responsibility for finding necessary information and mentorship
- accepting the inevitability of mistakes and working through them
- sharing one's work so that others might learn from and build upon it
It looks like we will have a couple of
large group projects this year: upgrading and modifying the Power
Racer, and creating a miniature mobile cupcake a la the Acme Muffineers. A couple people have also spoken of individual projects, as well.
Meanwhile, Emilio has been been building an art fence at
home:
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| photos by Sabrina Granados |
And Sebastian recently made a charging box for a local school:
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| photos by Sebastian Simmons |
