Category: Reports

Making Things Magic: Flower Power

Flower Power Conlon, Nitesh, and Sydney Submitted 12/7/2016 Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHNPC9KZVsY The finished product with all three glow flowers mounted and activated in the trellis.   Abstract For…

Clouds by Al, Sina & Noreen

Clouds by Al, Sina & Noreen, Submitted on Dec. 7th, 2016 The installation is made up of three *clouds, which emit thunder sounds and lightning while moving up…

Nocturnia — Zain Islam-Hashmi, Johnny Wu, Matther Gruber

Nocturnia Johnny Wu, Matthew Gruber, Zain Islam-Hashmi December 6, 2015 <https://youtu.be/_JC0-dpsvfo>     Abstract The mission of our project was to teach the concept of being nocturnal to…

Robby the Mimicking Robot Arm

Nina Lin & Vinitha Ranganeni https://youtu.be/StBXx9nf_Zc Abstract Our idea was to design and produce a robot arm controlled by external sensor input. On a table, we had a…

Rippling Bananas!

by Joyce Wang and Jett Vaultz Our report: Rippling Bananas. Panel Design: Schematic: Source code: banana    

Zain’s Children Museum Visit

My visit to the Children’s Museum was a lot more fun and eye-opening than  I originally thought it would be.  A general thing that I noticed about the…

Children’s Museum visit by Noreen Saeed

This week I got a chance to go and visit the Children’s Museum in Pittsburgh with my team members.  I was equally fascinated by the exhibits, and the…

Zain Children’s School Observations

At the School, I observed the 5’s/ Kindergarten.  One of the most striking things was the way the kids acted during Story Time.  The teacher was reading a…

Children Observation: “I can…”

After going outside for the kids to play, I realized that we were going to have to re-think our idea due to realizations I had while looking at…

Mixing glue/putty

In the 4’s group we watched 4 children around a table making a sticky mixture of glue and toothpaste. Their autonomy came from their mixing of the the…