squishy circuits – All Hallows' School Library

Makerspace Activities in Action Term 2 2022

June 14th, 2022

Term 2, 2022

An action packed term in Makerspace with a strong STEAM focus for our curious and creative inventors.

Week 1 – Lego We Do

The students amazed us by constructing designs with Lego and then using motors and code blocks to program their creations to move. Some students followed the guidelines and created complex kits and other went off-piste and invent their own designs.

Week 2 & 3 – Paper craft

Origami tulips and Mother’s Day cards. Makerspace is a place for nurturing the wellbeing and creativity of our students. The students put lots of love and care into cards for Mother’s day and contributed some of their creations to make beautiful buckets of paper tulips for our Library front counter.

Week 4 – Smart Rooms

Creativity and fun in the Makerspace using LittleBits, colourful electronic Bits that help make learning about circuitry and electronics fun and imaginative. We added fans, lights, and even a record player to our room designs with a variety of switches and features.

Week 5 & 6 – Makey Makey & Squishy Circuits

Making music in Makerspace this week. Using a circuit board, alligator clips, and a USB cable, Makey Makey uses closed loop electric signals to make everyday objects into computer keys. We made foil bongo drums, a coin guitar, play dough piano keys and game controllers.

Squishy Circuits were used to make a light up caterpillar for our Open Day display, showcasing all our amazing Makerspace and Cre8 Lab workshops. The students showed our Open Day guests how playdough is conductive and how to make music with glasses of coloured water and a leaf!

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Week 7 – Manga Mania

Manga comic books and graphic novels are always popular in our library so we held a Manga art class. Our amazingly talented senior art students helped run the class showing our Makerspace students how to draw in distinctive Manga style. We also discussed all things Manga, history, favourite titles, characters, styles and genres.

Week 8 – Lanterns for the Luminous Lantern Parade

Makerspace student made beautiful Magnolia Lanterns for the All Hallows’ Human Rights Group to carry at the Luminous Lantern Parade. Now in its 15th year, LUMINOUS is one of Queensland’s largest welcome events, capturing the imagination of Queenslanders with its spectacular use of light to symbolise hope and create welcome for new Queenslanders.

The spectacular lantern procession, held on Friday 10 June at South Bank wound its way on a short and symbolic walk down the promenade taking in the sites of the city skyline. The Parade ended at the South Bank Piazza for a vibrant World Music Concert, with the lanterns bathed in the luminous light symbolising welcome and hope for many people from all over the world, especially our newest Queenslanders.

Week 9 – Moving to our new Makerspace

We are so excited to be moving to our new library and brand new Makerspace in Term 3. We look forward to showing you all the exciting things we will be creating and discovering in our new space.

Makerspace Activities Term 2 , 2022

March 21st, 2022

A Sneak Peek

Come and join us on your lunch break for some creativity and fun! Makerspace is a lovely room at the back of the library where you can come with your friends and explore! Let your imagination take you away! No experience required, we will teach you and before you know it, you will be teaching all of your friends.

Watch this short presentation to see what we have planned.

McAuley Makerspace Term 2, 2019

June 11th, 2019

11th June, 2019

Makerspace Term 2 has been super popular!

We stared the term with mask painting inspired by the 2019 Whole School Project – Building Bingavia. We looked at traditional masks and art from Papua New Guinea and the students used paints and paper plates to create the masks. Week 2 was super busy with two types of pop-up (exploding) cards for Mother’s Day. We also ran this as a classroom activity with two grade five classes so it was quite a big week with over 150 cards made. This was a challenging project for the students as directions had to be followed closely for the cards to ‘pop’, and it was a great success.

Week 3 we repeated last year’s very popular Mother’s Day scrub. The girls mix, package and label a scrub made of sugar, coconut and essential oils, 150 scrubs were made this year.

In our preparation for Open day the students spent the next two weeks getting the ‘Lego We Do’ constructed and coded and the squishy circuit AHS Bakery display ready. The students made cupcakes and biscuits out of playdoh which we decorated with LED light circuits to show the conductivity of playdoh. Open day was very successful with lots of interest and amazement about all that we do in Makerspace at AHS. Week 6 so no set activity so the students constructed all the Lego Architecture kits including the Leaning Tower of Piza and the Lincoln Memorial. We also took delivery of the new Lego table which is very popular and has inspired some great free-style creations.

Week 7 we made heart shaped felt bag tags, the students had to trace, cut, stitch and stuff the hearts. Many of the girls had never threaded a needle or sewed before so it was a great learning experience.

About 60 hearts were made all up and a couple of students moved onto their own designs including a tiger. Week 8 took the stitching to a new level and the students made scrunchies. This involved more technical aspects of sewing a tube, turning the tube inside out and gathering the fabric onto elastic. Week 9 was technology week, the students were able to get hands on experience the google expeditions, dot and dash, spheros and code combat.

Additions to our makerspace this term have been the giant games, which have proved popular, and most recently the Lego table which is crowded both before school and lunchtimes, some fantastic creations have been made so far.