When is it Winter in Summer?

When you're in the deep freeze cleaning out the ice build-up with a spatula.

That's when.

FYI...

FYI down at the bottom of a post there should be some labels that you can click on to take you to related posts.

Maker Camp

This week, last week, and for four more weeks we are doing maker camp. Maker Camp is an online camp sponsored by MAKE and Google+ with daily hangouts and a field trip on Friday. Additionally there is a daily project and an advanced daily project. There are themes for each week (week two is art and design) and a topic for each day's hangout (yesterday's was wearable tech). A hangout consists of two guests related to the topic of the day,( yesterday's were Erica Domesek, founder of P.S-I made this, a website that shows you how to make almost everything in under five steps. And Becky Stern, representative from Ada Fruit, a company that makes backpacks with turn signals for your bike, to a Jowa doll with glowing eyes.) and the hosts of Maker Camp who ask the guests questions. If you are interested,(I highly recommend it) you can start now. No registration is necessary but you do have to activate a Google+ account. If you do not want to activate an account you can watch the hangouts on YouTube a day after they occur, and get the daily project at
http://makercamp.com/summer-2014/schedule/#week-2-art-design.

This is a list of the projects so far and some pictures of us making/using them.

A rocket on top of a three story building is not a fail; it is a fair flight
and some gusty wind.
                              -Cole Schuelke

1. paper rockets !!
2. balance board !
3. heron's fountain (we're still perfecting it) !!
4. glow bike
5. LED shoe clips !
6. bee condos !
7. yarn bowl !

!!=made it
!=want to make it

Maker Camp Stomp Rocket from C Schuelke on Vimeo.












                                     Heron's Fountain                                            

Koalas

The boys each drew a koala to add to a bon voyage card for Uncle Augi, Aunt Erin, and Kaden who are traveling to Australia on Thursday for a conference. They followed instructions from Rob at the artforkids website.

Artwork by Cole

Artwork by Evan

Artwork by Xavier