Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Maker Camp Oakland”.
The summer for many kids is such an exciting and fun time and they’re having amazing camp experiences and they’re learning about science. Young people need stem skills they need to explore. They need to understand how to take things apart. They need to be tinkering and building and making, and these maker camps ensure that all young people are able to do that. My name is kate. I work for oakland public library as a children’s librarian and we are at the melrose library having a maker day. So we do a process art program once a week during the school year, and i decided that there was a lot of opportunity to kind of expand. What i was doing, i am not an artist, i am not an engineer, i’m a librarian, and so i needed more ideas to engage the kids so at at t we have long been focused on supporting and empowering organizations that are focused on getting kids stem skills. It’S about the skills to take things apart and put them back together again and and get dirty and make things and build things um.
We did some really simple circuits. So imagine if you were building a greeting card that had a light, so um you’ve got a battery. You’Ve got an led and you’ve got adhesive, copper tape. We also have something we call the squiggly bots, so we’ve got like pens, taped, really well to a cup or a basket and a little motor that spins – and you can put you know, an eraser or a cork on it and um, depending on how you align That cork, the little bot is going to jump around and draw on a piece of paper differently. We’Re really proud to support maker camp and and and really inspired by. What we feel is their very unique ability to make sure that young people, no matter where they live, no matter what their background is, no matter what challenges their family might be facing, that they can have a really amazing summer and that they can build and tinker And come back to school, having had a great summer having had a lot of fun, but also having learned things that will make them better students in the year to come. You .