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Submitted by becky on Wed, 09/08/2010 - 10:37


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SocratesSculpturePark 2011 Saturday Sculpture Workshops: Site Winding & Solar Chefs
Socrates Sculpture Park - New York, NY
(Elementary & Middle School)
Saturday, July 30th & Saturday, August 6th
Site Winding:

Join us for a collaborative sculptural tent-building workshop using recycled materials to build 3-D spaces.
(Socrates Sculpture Park Calendar)

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Solar Chefs:

Young chefs help build a solar cooking station and then, mixing simple ingredients together, use the solar power to cook.
(Socrates Sculpture Park Calendar)

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AllKindsOfMinds 2011 A Technology Workshop for Teens with Special Need: The All Kinds of Minds Institute - New York, NY
(High School)
Monday, July 18th - Friday, July 22nd
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JCC - 002 2011 Tech Kids Unlimited: A Workshop for Kids with Special Needs
Jewish Community Center in Manhattan - New York, NY
(Middle + High School)
Monday, July 11th & Monday, July 25th

Electro-Puppet is an electronic crafts lesson plan in which students embed soft circuitry (flexible wire, conductive fabric, sewable LEDs, and battery holders) into a plush puppet or doll.

The Electro-Puppet lesson plan can be scaled in regards to class duration and complexity of content.

Requirements: Age range 8-16 (we will arrange into groups)

" The electronic puppets, facilitated by Becky Heritage, was the week's first activity, and one of my personal favorites: the eyes light up when you put the hands together and close the circuits. Seems the perfect metaphor for what happens with our kids in these workshops: help them put their hands together, close the circuits, and see their eyes light up!"
~ MothersVox @ Autism's Edge Blog



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Eyebeam - 002 2011 Girls Eye View 2011 (workshop assistant)
Eyebeam Art + Technology Center - New York, NY
(High School)
Monday, April 18th - Tuesday, April 19th

High school girls will collaborate with Eyebeam Fellows Kaho Abe & Nova Jiang to create an interactive digital art installation that will be featured at Figment Festival, a 3-day public art festival taking place on NYC’s Governor's Island (June 10-12). Over the course of a 2-day workshop at Eyebeam, students will learn how to embed basic electronics into everyday objects to transform them into musical instruments.

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CommunityWorks - 002 2011 Electro-Puppet
Community Works NYC - Making A Difference program - New York, NY
(Elementary 4-5th grades)
Wednesday, March 23rd & Wednesday, March 30th

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Eyebeam - 002 2009 Cardboard DJ
Eyebeam Art and Technology - New York, NY
(High School)
In this workshop, participants will get a chance to re-imagine the computer's interface, and its limited expression, by creating an interactive DJ Station. Utilizing a hacked USB keyboard and the Processing programming, students will create their own custom switches for a DJ Station. Sounds for each station will be chosen from Creative Commons Audio and other Open Source databases.

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BCW-logo 2008 Graffiti Murals After-School Workshops
Big City Walls - New York, NY
(High School)
Lead by local Graffiti artists, and members of Big City Walls, these classes emphasize sketching, composition, and proper aerosol techniques, such as proper cap use, cutting, and slicing, in preparation for collaborative, youth produced murals.

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CusterRoadUnitedMethodist - 002 2003-2006 Pre-School Care
Custer Road United Methodist Church - Plano,TX
(Pre-School)
  • Teach lessons and activities for children ages 2-4 years of age.
  • Paint a theme based mural for nursery/classroom.


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Parsons - 002 2009-2010 Creative Computing
(Undergraduate Course: Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY)

This course will introduce students to the building blocks of creative computing within the visual and media environment. Students will learn to create dynamic images, type and interfaces, that can translate into print, web and spatial forms. Through weekly problems, students will learn programming fundamentals that translate in virtually, all programming platforms and will later be introduced to various methods for creative output. ~BFA DT

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Parsons - 002 2008 Creativity and Computation Lab
(Graduate Course: Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY)
The primary intent of this course is to get all of us (students, faculty) to think about ourselves as creative individuals, and to investigate our relationship with digital technology. This course will have two basic components: the weekly lecture and the weekly lab. Students attend the lab/lecture for a total of six hours per week (three lecture, three lab).


Parsons - 002 2007 Introduction to Design
(Graduate Course: Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY)

There will be a strong emphasis of the mission of the Design and Technology Program: how to disseminate information through type, composition and aesthetics; how art and design influence each other; the application of technology and methodology, to design concepts, the importance of skill in design, and art looking at the intersection of design, technology and the human condition.