Tech Club and Makerspace

Our Tech Club has been more of an experimental process since we started it up only last year. Katie and I have been focusing on teaching students to code using mostly Scratch and having students involved in Hour of Code. However this year, we have had a different approach with our TLLP initiative. We wanted our Tech Club students to be more involved with the creation of our Makerspace. We wanted student voice in the creation and use of the mobile spaces.

Our school had started a Makerspace committee among some of the staff. They are in charge of organizing the 4 Makerspace carts the TLLP team had put together. The Tech club got a chance to preview these 4 carts and give feedback to the teachers on the Makerspace committee.

After the club got familiar with all the items and gadgets within the carts, Katie and I decided to begin introducing Spencer and Juliani's Launch Cycle. This cycle is a great design thinking process framekwork for students to follow. Students main goal is to design and create a self-regulation tool (Getting to Green tool) for students in another school. The Prezi shows how we infused the Launch cycle framework with the Tech Club students.

Prezi

Katie & Yolanta