Fall 2011 – K-12 College Exploration @ UCSD Extension
K-12 College Exploration Fall Courses at UCSD Extension start on September 24th. Registration is open NOW!. Classes include areas of study such as Electronics, DIY Robotics and Computer Programming.
Fall Classes at a glance:
Introduction to C++
Introduction to Java Programming: Java Language Basics
DIY Robotics
Robotics: Make Your Own Vehicle
Summer 2011 – Southeast SD Youth Program
FAB LAB San Diego, in Partnership with UCSD Extension present Southeast SD Youth Program FREE UCSD Extension accredited Pre-College courses at South Metro Career Center.
FREE UCSD Extension accredited Pre-College courses at South Metro Career Center. These are free classes for Middle and High School students and the only requirement is that they are genuinely motivated to learn. Classes are beginner-friendly, but are also open to students with some experience/intermediate knowledge.
This is a three-track learning program aimed at career preparation and readiness. We are targeting youth aged 16-21 to act as a bridge into technical careers/college, training them from the ground up in electronics with a hands-on project methodology, eventually moving them into solar and other clean energy technologies.
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Summer 2011 – K-12 College Exploration @ UCSD Extension
K-12 College Exploration Summer Courses are running now at UCSD Extension. Classes include areas of study such as Information Technology and Software Engineering, Creative Computing, Electronics, DIY Robotics, Web Development and Digital Arts.
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Create Wearable Electronics
Presented in collaboration with UCSD Extension K-12 College Exploration.
‘Wearable Electronics’ is a project-based course focused on the use of electronics on textile surfaces. In addition to being a good introduction to electronics, this class is hands-on: students will create their own wearable projects using the Arduino microcontroller, students work in projects such as making a t-shirt talk, a hat tell you the temperature, or shoes light up with every step!
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Product Design: Sign Making
Presented in Collaboration with UCSD Extension and the South Metro Center. This project has been made possible by the support of the Gary and Mary West Foundation.
‘Product Design: Sign Making’ introduces industry-standard vector-editing software such as Adobe Illustrator to create products that will then be cut using a vinyl plotter. Students will learn about design, geometry, production, CNC machines, and unique approaches to product design and creation while engaging in an innovative project-based process as they make their own products.
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Introduction to Creative Computing . Spring Break
Presented in Collaboration with UCSD Extension and the South Metro Center.
In the Creative Computing course, students learn the fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context, including how to design interactive work while developing strong conceptual and analytical thinking skills required for creating programs. With the basic understanding of programming offered in this course, students will be able to explore programming in other languages such as Java quite easily. The concepts and skills taught in this course will set a foundation for future learning in fields such as the Media Arts, Interaction Design, Game Design, Web Development, and Data Visualization. This class is beginner-friendly and hands-on.
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Product Design 2: Create Your Own Illuminated Object
In this program students engage in a hands-on process in order to learn how to design shapes in 2D in order to translate their designs into visually stunning 3-dimensional objects. In addition to this, students will also learn basics related to electricity and electronics by assembling their own portable LED lamp. This lamp will then be enclosed within the unique object that the students have designed and produced, resulting in an amazing, professional-looking illuminated object that students can take home.
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Vector Art & Product Design: Create Your Own Flat-Pack character
Presented in Collaboration with UCSD Extension and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
Learn to design shapes in 2D in order to translate their designs into 3-dimensional objects. Through this process, students learn to use vector editing software such as Adobe Illustrator to create products that they cut using a vinyl plotter. Students learn about design, prototyping, geometry, CNC machines, and product creation while making their own funny characters.
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Introduction to Creative Computing . Winter Program
Presented in Collaboration with UCSD Extension and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
Learn about the basics of coding by exploring the Processing Development Environment. This project-based class will focus on the development of fundamental programming skills, creation of applets that feature interactivity, allowing students to create responsive virtual environments. Students will also learn about interface and interactivity through the creation and use of infrared pens and IR-detecting cameras. Additionally, ways in which we commonly interact with the virtual environment will be explored through the dissection of a Wiimote™ and identification of its electronic features. Students will produce at least one final applet that they will be able to manipulate via the infrared controller that they have created. This class is beginner-friendly and hands-on.
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UCSD Extension Summer Program
On August 2nd to 6th 2010, Fab Lab San Diego offered “Engineering a Paintbrush Made of Light”, an UCSD Academic Connections Summer Program hosted at UCSD Extension Sorrento Mesa Center Location. This course was a one-week intensive in which students learned about interface design and controllers, wiimote hacks and wiimote whiteboard project (created by Johnny Lee) as well as coding basics with Processing (open source programming environment).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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