Photo by Joselyn King Aurora Nelson, a fourth grade student at Woodsdale Elementary School, demonstrates the robot she created and programmed to move via her iPad during a STEAM camp at Bridge Street Middle School.
Younger students in Ohio County Schools are getting their first look at what they can make in new “maker spaces” being placed in their school buildings.
“They (maker spaces) offer something other than the traditional classroom,” explained Josh Yost, sixth grade teacher at the Warwood School. Yost is serving as activities director for the traditional summer school and day camp programs for elementary and middle school students taking place this week at Bridge Street Middle School.
Each day, the traditional summer school students spend an hour in the maker spaces, and the day camp participants also are getting opportunities to use the equipment, he said.
Maker space classrooms are being established within each of the school buildings in Ohio County Schools, according to Yost. Each of these will contain technological tools they can use for school projects, and opportunities for them will be worked into class curriculum.
The first item in the maker space is a Glowforge laser printer. The tool, when connected with a computer and specialized software, can be programmed to cut and engrave on wood, metal, plastic and other materials.
In the classes this week, Yost has demonstrated how a sheet of wood can be cut into four-inch circles by the Glowforge.
The same machine then embossed the Bridge Street logo on the circles, and the resulting coasters will be given to Bridge Street staff, he said.
The students in class on Wednesday were to use a second tool, a 3-D printer, to print out key chains from plastic.
Also in the maker spacers are Cricut printers, a multi-function machine that allows students to impress and heat transfer vinyl decals onto items. Students were to use them to customize tote bags this week, teachers said.
The spaces are equipped with specialized Lego blocks as part of “We Do Robotics” kits. The kits contain computerized parts that permit elementary school students to build and later program the motion of their robots — all while learning coding.
Yost this week had his students build a creature from the blocks, then name it, decide where it lives and what it would eat.
“I created this out of my head,” he said. “It is open to their own interpretation.”
Middle school students have more advanced robotics kits, and could be seen using them in the hallways on Wednesday.
Each maker space also contains basic items such as scissors, hot glue guns and cardboard for creating projects, according to Yost.
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