2020 - 2021 Student Intern Projects
- Creating At-Home STEM Activities
- Building Step-By-Step Instructions
- Creating How-To Videos
- Aligning Activities to Next Generation Science Standards
- Make Activity Kits for Virtual Students
- Robotics
- Ozobots
- Spheros
- Designing
- BCEF 5k T-Shirt
2019 - 2020 Student Intern Projects
- Move to our new location at the Ignite Institute!
- Hydroponic Garden
- Building door frame
- Designing and painting canvas for door inserts
- 3D Printing
- Replacement stroller button
- Keychains for Marching Band
- to-scale house replica
- Prosthetic Hand
- Soldering & wire stripping
- Planning & execution of field trips
- Scheduling transportation
- Lesson plans
- Robotics
- M-bots
- Ozobots
- Spheros
- EV3
- Grant application
- Gear project
- Rebranding for BCS district - design work
- Photography
- Maker STEM workshop
- Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop
- Website management
- Eventbrite management - workshop postings and recruitment
- Newsletters
2017 - 2018 Student Intern Projects
- 3D Design & printing
- Leading classes/lessons/workshops
- Design challenges
- Moat Boat Paddle Battle
- Meeting & touring Gorilla Maker factory with owner & CEO, Glenn Warner
- Video & song editing
- Developing "How-To" videos for equipment, field trips, and more!
- Redesigning logos/documents/promotional materials for Children Inc.
- Promoting NKY Makerspace at community events, including the Cincinnati Mini-Maker Faire
- Circuitry-based activities, including sensor-based LED art!
- Developing instructional guides/lesson plans for schools & classes, including Lego EV3 programming & Bloxels!
- Leading Make-and-Take sessions, including origami items with LED eyes, light sabers, and electric handheld fans!
- Developing and leading activities with a range of resources & technologies, including 3D printing, Bloxels, Circuitry, design, and various engineering projects.
- Building canals
- Building benches
- Programming applications & website design
- Planning & executing the 2018 World Maker Expo, including moat boat races, pvc marshmellow shooters, catapults, and circuitry activities.
- Presenting at KySTE conference
2016 - 2017 Student Intern Projects
- Video & song editing
- creating Girl's STEAM video, working and interviewing local business leaders and owners
- working with schools to develop songs and videos for fundraisers, field trips, classroom activities, and more!
- 3D design and printing
- Teaching Boone county classes how to design
- Printing for field trips
- rebuilding printers, and learning the technical aspects of the machinery
- working directly with companies to develop prototypes
- Building shelves, using appropriate design strategies and tools
- Business card design
- Field trip preparation & developing lessons and videos for classes
- Leading trips and tours throughout the facility
- Photographing and promoting work for Boone County Animal Shelter, working with iImagine Photography
- Creating promotional materials for NKY Makerspace
- Recruiting sponsors and booths for World Maker & Inventor Expo
- assisting with plan development for summer programs
- creating "How-To" videos for Makerspace equipment
- Programming and building Raspberry Pi Photobooth project
- many, many more projects and daily activities!
2015 - 2016 Student Intern Projects
- 3D modeling: gears, launching tubes, trophies, chuck key holder, iPad bracket, streaming cam bracket, strand beest parts and much more
- Computer input control device with Makey Makey: Dance Dance Revolution for Girl's STEM Day
- Design of MakerSpace business card using Photoshop and Illustrator
- Edited graduation video with Final Cut Pro for Northern KY Chamber of Commerce Leadership NKY 2016
- Edited training video with Final Cut Pro for BOSCH Automotive
- Field trip leaders: multiple invention team visits, Makey Makey, Little Bits, Water Color Bot, green screen, 3D printing, song recording and more
- iSense 3D scanning: busts and locker handle
- MakerSpace tool and furniture assembly
- Makey Makey protector prototyping: 12 prototype invention, problem solving and 3D modeling project
- Pneumatic tennis ball launcher (5 prototypes)
- Printrbot upgrades: added larger heated beds, power supplies and z axis to four 3D printers to triple build volume
- Produced & edited PBL & Service Learning video in collaboration with teacher leaders across Boone County
- Produced & edited PSA for Boone County Animal Shelter
- Produced & edited song for Boone County Animal Shelter
- Produced & edited song using Little Bits electronics and sounds from a field trip
- Shot, edited, Photoshoped & Illustrated photos for Boone County Animal Shelter resulting in a dramatic increase in adoption rates
- Sign making: vinyl plotting, styrofoam/coardboard cutting and Mod Podge
- World Maker & Inventor Expo: Presented pneumatic tennis ball launcher
- X-Carve build: Students built a 1x1 meter CNC carving router with XYZ.