Robots, rockets, and space—oh my!
Over 60 youth showed up at the 2015 event to learn about and explore the world through NASA's Space Apps Toronto Youth Program. Sign up for the newsletter below to get advance notice and more info on next year's event, and other fun activities!
Stars are very far away, but astronomers can learn a lot about them from their light. Kids will be able to make their own spectroscope from simple materials and study spectrums of different bright objects.
Kids will also learn more about the Saturn V / Apollo 11 launch which put Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin on the Moon on July 20, 1969 through an interactive control panel. Kids can take part in the countdown to lift-off.
Kids will create space-themed images using the web-based Pixlr program and craft supplies. They will then bring them to life, making a pin-on badge with a button-press!
Go out of this world with your imagination and create your very own space creature, or rocket into your own space adventure by creating a zine, chapbook, or comic strip.
Using Tumblr, a popular blogging platform, kids will craft a short post about "what they love about technology and space" within an HTML template. The blog will be published on a rolling basis throughout the day, resulting in an exciting demonstration of the kids perceptions of technology and space!
A pencil with a built in speaker that changes pitch based on resistance!!? Students will surely enjoy building this novel ohm meter themselves and using it for tests. Among other things, the pencil allows students to create a hand drawn working piano, be challenged to play songs, and use their bodies as a real electric circuit.
STEAMLabs will be bringing 6 Mimetics Jade Robots that you will use to complete challenges such as navigating the surface of Mars, retrieving a rock sample, and using a spectrometer to identify what it's made of. This is a great introduction for kids of all ages to robotics programming - follow up with Arduino Robotics camps and workshops at STEAMLabs!
James Costa works with Phuse, a team of designers and developers, to craft websites, interfaces, and brands. In his spare time, James co-founded Positive Gear, an organization that speaks and works with youth to empower them towards positive change, and is the Director of Marketing for the Trek for Teens Foundation that raises funds and awareness for youth homelessness in Toronto.
Laura Plant is one part of the founding team and Co-Executive Director of Ladies Learning Code - a national not-for-profit organization promoting digital literacy for women and youth. She has a passion for exploring and helping others, women and girls, in particular, learn how to leverage and evolve, build and create new technology, in ways that are meaningful.
Melissa is one part of the founding team and Co-Executive Director of Ladies Learning Code - a national not-for-profit organization promoting digital literacy for women and youth. She works to inspire women and girls to become passionate builders - not just consumers - of technology through social and collaborative learning experiences.
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