With a little help from my parents, I assembled a small wooden catapult for my sixth grade science class. Complete with rubber bands, wooden pegs, pen markings, and varnish, I labored away at it with perfection in mind. At that moment, I realized what I built was not just another school project, it was a work of art. I discovered a certain aspect of creativity, design, and art is required in a person in order to be a good engineer.
By the time I became a teenager, I assembled a rather impressive collection of bits and bobs, tools, components, computers, and circuit boards. Tinkering in my garage has been an essential part of my life for the last six years. From modifying cars to fixing our catamarans, or putting electric motors in objects …show more content…
Not only did we want to express our hobbies, but we wanted to show other students engineering is much more than numbers and figures--engineering is an art, not just a boring day job.
The goal of the Makerspace is to provide a space where people can develop an interest in STEM through their own creativity and experiences. The Makerspace provides tools, equipment, and materials many people may not have access to at home, as well as a creative environment where people can learn skills and find interest through their peers.
For the last three years running the club, I now realize that the most important part of the Makerspace is its members. Due to its liberal and freethinking nature, it requires a core group of dedicated members who can pass down the quintessential traits of a maker to incoming freshmen. Without creativity or a passion for building, one cannot motivate people into working on projects they have no interest in.
Consequently, this means that the Makerspace is a platform of leadership for its members. For every group project, there must be a leader that can organize a group of individuals around an idea to accomplish a goal. This leader has the opportunity to combine the collective effort and unique talent of the Makerspace to achieve something …show more content…
The goal is to launch a balloon to capture video and photography from at least 100,000 feet in the air, verify the altitude with a little Arduino sensor magic, and accurately track the payload as it floats back to earth via a parachute. Although the flight is scheduled to launch in November, I feel that the Makerspace and its members have already achieved success. People who have had no tinkering experience before Makerspace are now able to experience the satisfaction and content of knowing that through a lot of hard work and dedication, they were able to help design and build something with their own two hands.
This school year will be my last at Hudson High School, and my last year with the Makerspace. I hope that the foundations I have helped lay out will inspire more of my peers to view engineering as something that can be a hobby, and inspire them to take on projects and risks that are out of their comfort zones. I hope that the Makerspace will help them realize that nothing is out of their grasp--realize it takes hard work and dedication, not necessarily intelligence, to achieve any goal that they set out to
By the time I became a teenager, I assembled a rather impressive collection of bits and bobs, tools, components, computers, and circuit boards. Tinkering in my garage has been an essential part of my life for the last six years. From modifying cars to fixing our catamarans, or putting electric motors in objects …show more content…
Not only did we want to express our hobbies, but we wanted to show other students engineering is much more than numbers and figures--engineering is an art, not just a boring day job.
The goal of the Makerspace is to provide a space where people can develop an interest in STEM through their own creativity and experiences. The Makerspace provides tools, equipment, and materials many people may not have access to at home, as well as a creative environment where people can learn skills and find interest through their peers.
For the last three years running the club, I now realize that the most important part of the Makerspace is its members. Due to its liberal and freethinking nature, it requires a core group of dedicated members who can pass down the quintessential traits of a maker to incoming freshmen. Without creativity or a passion for building, one cannot motivate people into working on projects they have no interest in.
Consequently, this means that the Makerspace is a platform of leadership for its members. For every group project, there must be a leader that can organize a group of individuals around an idea to accomplish a goal. This leader has the opportunity to combine the collective effort and unique talent of the Makerspace to achieve something …show more content…
The goal is to launch a balloon to capture video and photography from at least 100,000 feet in the air, verify the altitude with a little Arduino sensor magic, and accurately track the payload as it floats back to earth via a parachute. Although the flight is scheduled to launch in November, I feel that the Makerspace and its members have already achieved success. People who have had no tinkering experience before Makerspace are now able to experience the satisfaction and content of knowing that through a lot of hard work and dedication, they were able to help design and build something with their own two hands.
This school year will be my last at Hudson High School, and my last year with the Makerspace. I hope that the foundations I have helped lay out will inspire more of my peers to view engineering as something that can be a hobby, and inspire them to take on projects and risks that are out of their comfort zones. I hope that the Makerspace will help them realize that nothing is out of their grasp--realize it takes hard work and dedication, not necessarily intelligence, to achieve any goal that they set out to