Wacky Inventions

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[ UUID ] 900eadaa-1758-4052-ab7d-2c1dd22b3640

[ Session Name ] Wacky Inventions
[ Primary Space ] Youth Zone

[ Submitter's Name ] Alan O'Donohoe
[ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] exa.foundation
[ Submitter's GitHub ] @teknoteacher

[ Other Facilitator 1's Name ] Matt Moore

What will happen in your session?

Participants (youngsters, parents, teachers) will work together to design and develop a prototype for a 'Wacky Invention' using some low cost hardware and software eg. Raspberry Pi computers, Micro:bit, Scratch, EduBlocks and Python.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

The outcome of the session is for all participants to be engaged and inspired by the potential that Digital Making has to change the world in which we live. Physical outcomes will be prototypes of inventions designed and developed by participants.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

We will be fully equipped to lead our session. We just require furniture and electricity. However, if we can use the PiTop room that would be advantageous or else we need particpants to bring their own devices in order to program Microbits .

Time needed

90 mins

[chadsansing]

I love the whimsy - are there connections to the festival theme or other Internet health issues that might connect here, @teknoteacher?

[emrysgreen]

Would you be interested in leading a junkyard space for us linked to this @teknoteacher?

[OdysseyScout]

Is this a space with inspiration materials you can repurpose to make art or rapid prototypes? I have run workshops like this in the past and would be delighted to do this at MozFest. I can show how parents in remote areas have thermoformed prosthetics from plastic soda bottles and uses other materials on hand. I will have demo hands and sample devices they can interact with which include repurposed ordinary objects, and we can use the real open source devices to explain how they work and inspire participants. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Emrys Green Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 4:30 PM To: MozillaFestival/mozfest-progr am-2018 Cc: Subscribed Subject: Re: [MozillaFestival/mozfest-program-2018] Wacky Inventions (#406) Would you be interested in leading a junkyard space for us linked to this @teknoteacher? — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[teknoteacher]

@chadsansing Yes, we certainly can link to the festival theme and have sought to link to relevant/current contexts in the past when running similar workshops. Thank you.

@emrysgreen I'm afraid I'm not as well acquainted with the lingo as you - What do you mean by 'junkyard' ?

@OdysseyScout This is a proposal for a session, not a space. Please, if you'd like to attend/support our session, you'd be very welcome. From my experience, given the age range, limited time available and prior experience of attendees (very often children as young as 6 or 7) it's been more practical to develop prototypes for 'Wacky Inventions', blue sky thinking rather than solutions that solve real world problems.

[emrysgreen]

Thanks @teknoteacher - we were considering setting up a session or activity within the youth zone along similar lines to your proposed session here - the idea being a 'junkyard' of materials like fruit, scrap materials etc that could be linked up to pi's etc to do something fun - very similar to your proposed session - it's more about wacky inventions indeed, but also trying to re-use or recycle materials rather than necessarily 'from new' if that makes sense?

[gbaman]

Thanks @teknoteacher.
Just to follow on from Alan's comments @OdysseyScout, unfortunately the Call for Proposals for this years Mozfest is closed (since 1st August) and we are unable to take any additional sessions for consideration this year.

As Alan mentioned, you are welcome to come along to his session as an attendee if the session is accepted, but we aren't accepting any further sessions at this time.