Sam Stier, Director of the Center for Learning with Nature, will teach you how to use his award-winning Engineering Inspired by Nature curriculum. After the workshop, you and your students can: Use scanning electron micrographs to understand the internal architecture and performance of materials; explore materials science and structural engineering through the example of schoolyard trees; redesign common objects to optimize material use, based on how bones grow; make cement in a process inspired by coral reefs, without quarries and…
Find out more »The FAB PLAY Summer Institute is open to all educators and organizations hoping to deepen their experience of teaching and learning in Fab Labs and Makerspaces and share their expertise back to the larger community. Although there will be some sessions on machines and techniques, the overall objective of the institute is for all participants and presenters to learn from each other and obtain new ideas to implement in their own space. Topics include: Setting up Makerspaces & Fab Labs,…
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