Student Maker Workshop 2 – Internet Everywhere

Showings

Reflecting Lounge Sat, Nov 26, 2016 2:00 PM
Reflecting Lounge Sun, Nov 27, 2016 2:00 PM

Description

Student Maker Workshop

The Actua Maker Mobile is a moving makerspace packed with cutting-edge technology that encourages youth to experiment with hands-on learning and create their own innovations in real-time.

Actua’s Innovation150 Maker Mobile will be visiting Perimeter Institute to kick off our joint cross Canada Power of Ideas tour for Innovation150. Actua’s maker workshops will appeal to students in grade 6 and up. Space is limited in each workshop to 30 participants.

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Workshop 2 - Internet Everywhere

Hardware and software come together in this programming and design challenge. Using visual “ block” programming participants will write simple programs and then build physical interfaces to interact with them using little bits, makey makey and Arduino microcontrollers, all customized to the age of the participants. Youth will interface with weather stations to create programs that alert communities to potential weather hazards.

For full details please read IMPORTANT WORKSHOP INFORMATION.

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Student Maker Workshop 2:

Internet Everywhere.

Two days, November 26 or 27

2:00 PM to 3:30 PM 


IMPORTANT WORKSHOP INFORMATION:

  • The workshop duration equals 1.5 hours.

  • Recommended for students Grade 6 and up only.

  • Note: there is no room for non-participants in the workshop area.

  • All students must be picked up by 3:30 pm. There were be no supervision after 3:30 pm.

  • A maximum of two tickets are available per ticket account.

Innovation150

Funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage, Innovation150 is a yearlong program offering meaningful and enriching experiences across the country that foster a culture of innovation and inspire the next generation of social and technological innovators.   This signature initiative pairs up five of Canada’s leading science outreach organizations - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Actua, Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, Canadian Association of Science Centres, and Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation.