Programs

FabTag

Our aim was to take an existing piece of technology and re-assign it with a new purpose. We also wanted to allow for students to participate in the development and make it as flexible as possible.
We wanted to use the Wii remote (aka wii-mote) to paint graffiti on a public wall using a high lumens projector. To make it more personal, we asked all of the participating students to make 1-minute short movies or loops to be mixed into the graffiti drawings, so we would end up with drawing video lines on walls.
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Summer Training Intensive

In our Summer Intensive Training Program 20 Interns aged 16-24 received a bi-weekly paycheck while they worked within the Fab Lab to develop career readiness skills and prepare for college. Training programs include introduction to electronics, engineering, and computing, including 2D and 3D design, large and small-scale building, and GPS mapping systems. All students received personalized guidance from college counselors and mentorship opportunities with professionals in technological and related fields.
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School Year Internships

Fab Lab works with internship coordinators from Crawford High School and MET High School to allow yearlong (two days a week) learning opportunities for interested high school students. Three of these interns are in their second year at the Fab Lab. In this setting, students can work on long-term projects and engage with professionals from related career fields and academia to explore areas of interest. All students are involved in the college application process.
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Light@Night

Light@ Night, or Sol Summer Nights is a celebration of youth and community-produced art, media and activities held in Colina Del Sol Park. While the event featured the works of youth displayed through light and projection, it also incorporated the community at large, feeding 150 neighbors dinner and enlivening the park with youth-produced music, video and dance. A total of eight Neighborhoods First-participating community organizations worked together to reclaim the park after dark, making it brighter and safer while celebrating the community that they serve.
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Community Power Sculpture

In collaboration with Neighborhoods First, and through a LISC program grant, Crawford HS and City Heights/Colina Park students got creative while developing skills to aid them in educational and career pursuits. Students learned science, technology, engineering and math skills while they worked to generate designs and inventions of their own creation. This project has resulted in a sustainable energy learning model, in which students created a 9 foot tall solar-powered structure that examines the idea of power use in the community. The structure lights at night and when interacted with by people.
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Youth-led GPS/GIS Mapping at MTRP

In order to prepare and engage the next generation of San Diego decision makers in becoming empowered and civic-minded community members, the Fab Lab works to orient students toward applying the tools of the laboratory to researching, planning and proposing solutions to real world issues. Partnering with organizations that offer a diverse and inter-curricular opportunity to interact with these principals in a hands-on way that enables long-term change is an essential part of the Fab Lab program methodology. Working to engage learners in sustainable design and environmental awareness is extremely critical to developing a community of solution-oriented thinkers.
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Adaptive Tech Design

At the Fab Lab, we have had the opportunity to prototype several components designed to meet the specialized needs of people with physical limitations. We have created ad-hock teams made up of Fab Lab community: student interns, designers, engineers and architects in order to do so.
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Community Access Design

Information about this program will be available soon.