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.