On Saturday March 13th we held a virtual workshop to introduce participants to 3D design and explore some awesome female inventors, in honor of Women’s History Month in March. Participants had less than a week to create a 3D design showcasing a female inventor of their choice! Submissions can be viewed in the gallery page … Continue reading PRINT&LEARN: 3D DESIGN WORKSHOP SPOTLIGHTING FEMALE INVENTORS
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High River READesign – Fall 2019
Returning to the High River Library in November 2019, is the exciting Engineering program, Project READesign! READesign incorporates elements of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics (STEAM) into a learning experience where participants use the Engineering Design Process to solve problems for characters in a story. In this session, we are reading an old favorite … Continue reading High River READesign – Fall 2019
One-day READesign – High River
A small group gathered to solve problems for a story-book character on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at the High River Library. A single day version of the Project READesign program, the session on Saturday was all about learning what engineers do, trying out the engineering design process, and solving some problems for a story book … Continue reading One-day READesign – High River
High River READesign – Nov 2018 – Session 3 & 4
Our final two sessions for this edition of READesign at the High River Library saw our participants design, build, and test devices for slowing the fall / decreasing the impact of a fall for their action figure (designed and 3D printed from our 2nd session class). Joe Hardy exits the stolen airplane in our novel … Continue reading High River READesign – Nov 2018 – Session 3 & 4
High River READesign – Nov 2018 – Session 2
The 2nd Session of our Fall 2018 READesign program at the High River Library was a lot of fun! Sphero robots and programming were where we began the afternoon, with the challenge from the first 4 chapters of “In Plane Sight” by Franklin W. Dixon to navigate along the ‘last known heading’ for the stolen … Continue reading High River READesign – Nov 2018 – Session 2
High River READesign – Nov 2018 – Session #1
We’re Back! Welcome to the Fall 2018 Program run of Project READesign at the High River Library! We are busy reading a fantastic old-school mystery novel, “In Plane Sight” by Franklin W. Dixon (which is really a pseudonym for several different authors who together wrote the Hardy Boys novels, of which this is #176). Students … Continue reading High River READesign – Nov 2018 – Session #1