DESCRIPTION: Wonder how many steps you've taken today? Build your own device and start tracking. Join this workshop to practice coding in scratch and setting up your microbit to actually count steps. Challenge yourself to also design a holder for your step counter that goes with any attire. Is it something you wear on your shoe? wrist? or maybe as a necklace? Up to you how you wear it. This workshop is a wonderful mix engineering, design and fashion.
Recommended for ages 8 to 12
LEARN ABOUT
Block based coding
Sensors and microcontrollers
Product design and prototyping
WORKSHOP FORMAT: 1 hour live online via zoom
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Hazal Mestci a creative technologist and interactive designer from Turkey. She studied design, communication, technology and film at the Parsons School of Design. With the long lasting sense of pleasure of mixing tradition and innovation, she designs projects reflecting power structures, politics, play and education. She teaches stop-motion animation, storytelling with illustration, 3D printing, collage, sound design, game design, coding and electronics, as well as yoga, arts, math and science.
MATERIAL NEEDED: Computer, Optional: Microbit
PRICE: $20/session OR $75 for 5 sessions (you’ll save $5/session with purchase of a package)