Tech in the Suburbs March 14, 2018 Mary Wussow, Branch Manager Dakota County Library – Wescott Goals of Class To share ideas of To suggest programs, To suggest reaching out To encourage library science & technology services & to potential community staff to dream small or programs for all ages & equipment/software partners for sources of big and to think outside to inspire library staff for a variety of price expertise, funding and the box to branch out ranges teachers or volunteers Areas covered Equipment, Programs Software & Kits Funding & Community Support Not included Specific details of presenting the programs Technical ‘how-to’ steps (Can put you in touch with librarians who have offered the programs) Programs Big Truck Day (Truck ‘Petting Zoo’) City & County Fire Truck Trucks: Snowplow & other Police Car maintenance vehicles Homeschool Science/STEAM on Saturdays (Youth) Look at local Average cost: $250. community or 4-year Less expensive Some free. Some colleges to see if they alternatives: higher priced. have someone to do the program for free Check with any local Find hands-on STEM high-tech company to activities on the see if they have an Internet and librarians expert who might do a teach programs and/or program show videos Homeschool Science/STEAM on Saturdays (Youth) Homeschool Science programs offered once monthly on a weekday during the school year. STEAM on Saturdays is often a repeat of Homeschool Science but offered Saturday once monthly on a Saturday afternoon. Presenters: . Mad Science . 3M Visiting Wizards . Raptor Center . Leonardo’s Basement . Minnesota Zoo . The Works . Science Museum of Minnesota . Rich Valley Radio Controlled . Rad Zoo Airplane Flying Club . Bakken Museum . Dakota County Parks . Bell Museum . Warner Nature Center . KARE 11 Weather . STEAM Bunnies . Meteorologist/author Mike Lynch . University of Minnesota Homeschool Science/STEAM on Saturdays (Youth) Topics: . Fish Dissection . Acids & Bases . Raptors . Motion . Forensics . Wind Turbines . Magic Chemistry Show . Physics . NASA’s Pictures . Animals of the North . Nano Particles . Water Conservation . Kitchen Grossology . Cockroaches & Tarantulas . Frogs, Volts & Vinegar . Zoomobile . Cryogenics . Amazing & Unusual Animals . Static Electricity . Heart . Minnesota Monarchs . Honeybee Project . Air Power . Honeybees . Engineering Careers . Currents . Circuits . Yo-Yos . Creating with Junk . Dinosaurs . Bugs . Invertebrates . Model Aviation . Minnesota Meteorology . Fire & Ice . Minnesota Geology . Moon Rocks & Meteorites . Astronomy/Star Watching . Energy . Migration . Air & Vacuum . Eclipses Movie Making (Youth) Kids, tweens or teens work LEGO Movie App with iPads as a group or in pairs to OgoBild/Animate It software create their own movies. Upload to cloud service. iMovie/Green Screen (general class & book trailers) for Macs Coding & Pre-Coding (Youth) Hour of Code (free) Scratch/ScratchJr • Anna & Elsa • Minecraft Mindstorms (free) • Star Wars • Many more! Use library computers Ozobots or Sphero or have students Bee-Bots for pre- bring their own PCs, coding and Pro-Bots smartphones or tablets. Electronics (Youth) Makey Makey Snap Circuits Robotics (Youth) Intro to Robotics Programming Robotics Demos (High School (High School Robotics Team) Robotics Team) Free programs! Light Painting (Youth or Adults) Light Painting (Youth or Adults) "Paint with Light" "How to Do Light “Light Painting 101” (Maker Camp) Painting" (instructables) < YouTube & Vimeo Movies (search light painting or a light painting artist from Finland: Hannu Huhtamo) Free A.R. light painting app for iPad > Virtual Reality (Youth) DCL purchased Viewmaster Deluxe headsets (early Virtual Reality creates a new virtual 2017 cost: $32.99 x 10 = world. Usually a headset, goggles or $329.90) and one iPod glasses are used to view the world. Touch ($199) for those who don’t have their own device. Programs: • Explore Virtual Reality • Space Travel in VR VR Kit for Checkout • Build a Virtual Reality World • Virtual Reality Games • Photos in Virtual Reality Library VR/Panoramic Tour/Video Take 360 Upload tours panoramic onto Roundme photo tours website View video tour of library in Roundme app or share access Augmented Reality (Youth) Augmented Reality inserts a For instance, a company Instructions for putting digital world into the might offer an A.R. app that together a bookshelf might existing, real world. A can insert furniture into your light up the pieces you need smartphone, tablet or laptop home for you to consider how to put together next. can be used. it would look. You might ‘try on’ clothing Look for free or low-cost A.R. apps and decide on your order for kids or tweens involving without physically doing so. dinosaurs, movies, dogs & cats, Or, change hairstyles or fairies, space, sports & more. makeup. Project Runway (Youth) TV’s “Project Runway” designer Programs: Christopher Straub acted as a mentor • Holiday Sewing with Christopher to youth designers who took cast-off Straub clothing and designed a new creation • Bags by Christopher Straub with sewing machines brought in. He • Teen Fashion Sew-It-Up & Review spoke patiently with each child or with Project Runway’s Christopher teen and emphasized what he liked Straub about their design. Lower-cost Alternatives: Find sewers or designers locally from the Example of tween/teen program community, school system or fabric with library staff and volunteers: store to work with kids. Ask for old Sewing Style Battle clothing donations from staff. T-Shirt Quilt (Youth & Adults) “A day-long workshop with the Dakota County Star Quilters Sewing machines (2) from the and librarians, making a t-shirt library’s iLAB and other quilt out of treasured t-shirts. machines were brought in by Work alone or team up with a class participants. member of another generation.” Other sewing program: Cost: A supply list was provided to participants and they purchased their own Simple DIY Throw Pillow supplies. Viking Braiding Meets 3D Printing/Lucet (Adults) 3D print a lucet ahead of time and bring it to class to learn how to do Viking braiding STEAM Fests & Tech Toys (Youth) STEAM Fests: drop-in sessions over 2 hours for Purchased robotics, Tables are run by kids and families to stop electronics and tech toys librarians, circulation at tables and try different in small quantities. staff and Volunteens. activities using technology or arts/crafts. Examples: Ozobots, Sphero, Snap Circuits, iPad art apps, art projects (supplies & instructions provided), button making, LED throwies Family Engineering Nights (Youth & Adult) Family teams Drop-in stations on working on assigned More structured engineering as a challenges to invent than STEAM Fests career or tasks to a product or complete solution Look at STEM curriculum sites for ideas. NASA Moon Rocks (Youth & Adult) NASA Lunar and Certification program Special storage Meteorite Sample Disk attendance required requirements Program No prior publicity Special shipping Cost: Free except for without security guard requirements above requirements Auto Maintenance (Youth & Adult) DCL’s program was a teen program offered for free at a local technical college. It’s a way for Cost: Free the college to get teens/potential students on campus. Alternative: Check with local or retired mechanic to offer program Alternative: Offer or community volunteer with bicycle maintenance. knowledge. iPad Lab Classes (Youth & Adult) iPad Lab with 10 iPad iPads & Instructor iPad Basics Digital Art iPad Accessibility Options on the Ebooks on the iPad iPad Office Free Apps for Productivity on iPad Storytime iPads the iPad Teen iPad Lab Fun: • Games Galore • Digital Art Little Learners Star Wars iPad • Garage Band App Discovery Art • iMovie • Book Trailers iLAB Makerspace Classes (Youth & Adult) Photo & Paper Beginning Film Cutting 3D Printing 3D Scanning classes on: Digitization (Silhouette) Sewing & Green 3D Modeling Audio Fabric Screen & (Tinkercad) Production Cutting iMovie Business/Tech Classes (Adult) Science Museum of Twin Cities creative artist Minnesota Becka Rahn: Twin Cities Media Alliance Etsy: Creating your own Etsy shop Classes on building websites, creating Spoonflower: Creating your Facebook pages for own digital fabric design business, branding a business, marketing a Melding technology & art business, search engine optimization and more! Business/Tech Classes (Adult) Librarians learn topics & Community expert or Lower cost alternatives: teach volunteer teaches Check with SCORE Find ‘best of the best’ (Counselors to America's YouTube or Vimeo videos Small Business) for free to share or low-cost presenter options. Preserving Digital Memories (Adult) Steps you can take to organize, protect and preserve your irreplaceable family photos, home movies Presented by Minitex: and other digital content against technology obsolescence, physical and natural disasters, and accidental deletion Preserving Digital Memories (Adult) Cost: Free Alternatives: Partner with local Librarians learn & historical or teach file genealogical society; organization, saving ask if they have & conversion volunteer to teach Create Classes out of library databases Examples: Ancestry Learn Together: Spanish (Mango Lynda.com Languages) Equipment, Software & Kits VOX Books Audio books within Picture Books and a print book. Push Juvenile Non- a button to listen Fiction: $38-43 while reading. Built-in speaker for parent & child or Charges last 75-100 group, plus plays. headphone jack for quiet listening. AWE Early Learning Computers All-in-One 70+ software