We recently started High School Clubs where students can meet and learn to make DIY projects. At one high school, the group decided to make a photo booth powered by an Arduino to use at their school’s winter formal. The club had to build and program the project which took them over a month to…
Last week, we completed Week 7 of our 10-week Web Design and Creative Coding Program for middle school girls at Vaughn Next Century Learning Center. It’s the beginning of coding programs that we plan to offer in 2016 for middle school girls. We are teaching HTML and CSS within the context of developing a mobile…
Interview with Lori Castaneda, SAN FERNANDO HIGH SCHOOL
DIY Girls is proud to announce that, in partnership with San Fernando High School, has been awarded the Lemelson-MIT Grant. We are one of 15 InvenTeams of high school students nationwide that will each receive up to $10,000 in grant funding to solve real-world problems through invention. As part of the Grant, the DIY Girls…
We’re thrilled to announce that DIY Girls has been selected as an Lemelson-MIT Excite Award winner and finalist for a 2016-2017 InvenTeam grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program. As a finalist, DIY Girls will have the opportunity to receive an InvenTeams Grant to be awarded in the Fall. Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams™ are comprised of high school students,…
This summer we ran five weeks of summer camp for middle school girls and held 9 workshops at 2 LA Public Libraries serving over 100 kids! Girls learned to program robots, made wearable electronics projects, designed toys and made their own mobile apps. Our summer showcase, presented by Time Warner Cable, highlighted projects made by girls…