Right now, I can't stop listening to the LEGO Movie song.Everything really is AWESOME. In my free time, I like to bake when my oven's not broken and volunteer with local community arts and planning events. I ghosted around last year's LCL both online and in-person since then at the monthly Boston area meetups when I can. AND lately I'm an advocate for Clubhouses to integrate more "making" activities in their Clubhouses.or just showing that they've been doing it all along but just calling it arts/crafts/engineering/DIY/design/fun. I'm back in my home turf of Boston, and working on the Networks' social networking website, the, for youth to post digital media and tech projects and collaborate with other staff and mentors around the world. Hi all - my day job is the Knowledge Ninja.wait just the Knowledge Manager of the Intel Computer Clubhouse Network but I've been on a long learning journey to this point - former Clubhouse Coordinator, AmeriCorps VISTA working in community media & tech centers, urban planning and civic media at MIT, then BTOP/digital literacy work out of Washington DC. I'm excited about LCL2! Nice to meet you all (and nice to see some of you again!) I'm also here as a parent of learners and because I would like to help develop future educational technologies with creative learning in mind. This leads me to awesome adventures such as LCL. I am multimodal and enjoy learning from collaborative workshops at my local Makerspace, books, YouTube/Vimeo tutorials, digital DIY guide, MOOCs, or whatever else I get my hands on. I am also learning about Arduino, RaspPi, 3D printing, laser cutting, metalworking, woodworking, and whatever else I can dive into. I enjoy creating, sharing, and perusing digital art, paintings, photography, fractal images, a wide range of other visual arts, music of varying genre, haiku, other poetry forms, fiction, nonfiction, humor, amateur video games, collages, and basically anything arts and crafts. The biggest and most valuable takeaway for me from LCL was how it changed and enhanced my perception of creative learning. I have yet to explore Lego WeDo or Pico, but I am still enjoying Scratch, MaKey MaKey, and TurtleArt. I loved the last LCL, and am excited about LCL2. I enjoyed LCLv1 as it prompted me to reconnect to some of my favorite foundational texts and I’m excited to be part of LCLv2. I graduated from the HGSE TIE program in 2003 and have been pulling Media Lab tools into classes ever since. Next year we are planning to offer five courses in the STEAM Shop: intro electronics (Arduino, Pi, wearable tech, interactive art), Robotics 1 (DIY thru Mindstorms), Robotics 2 (3D design and humanitarian engineering), Intro to Computer Science, and additional sections of MESA. The space is lightly furnished as we are still fundraising and we are considering a “make the makerspace” summer class for students who want to help design & build out the room. We have two student groups using the Pali STEAM Shop this term: our MESA elective () and our VEX robotics club. In January we opened our makerspace, the Pali STEAM Shop (), in an ex-industrial arts classroom with high ceilings, good ventilation, great view of the Santa Monica Mountains. I'm the head of tech at Palisades Charter High School, and independent charter of nearly 3000 students from around LA County. So, I have decided to start a new life as educator for facilitating STEAM competences in young people and not only I am passionate about history,numismatics, astronomy. I have been fascinated by Educational Robotics and after attending the first edition of LCL I have discovered the power of Creative Computing, Scratch and Tinkering in education. So, for instance, I have created and self published, GeoFilm Roma, a book about movies filmed in Rome, that uses QR codes to provide multimedia content via smartphones. In the meantime, I decided to not to leave anymore ideas to rot in the drawer. But after three years it was time to change again: technological consultancy and web. It was a great experience, and when you work for your own company, your work is handyman. Around a table with a few friends, one day we asked ourselves: - What about to set up an eLearning company? Yes, let's do it. After a twenty-year career as telecommunication engineer in multinational companies (Cap Gemini Group and Ericsson), I said to myself: it's time to change. I'm currently working at educational projects about Creative Computing and Educational Robotics, to be proposed mainly for afterschool activities. Hi all, my name is Adriano and I live in Roma, Italy.
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