This week is my last week working with Maker Jawn. After nearly a year and a half of spending my afternoons working with kids, developing projects, and being a part of an amazing team of creative, caring, and innovative Maker Mentors, it’s difficult to say goodbye not for a lack of interest, but for a lack of continued funding for… Read more →
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Making Maker Dreams Come True, or, Applying for a Grant with a 9-year-old
Yesterday Charity and I finished and submited her application for a Disney Friends for Change Grant. We had been working together over the past month to develop ideas for a small grant and ways to apply them through our Maker space in Kensington Library. After having an animal rights activist come speak at the library this summer, Charity… Read more →
World Premiere of “Plan 19 From Outer Space” at Kensington!
This Wednesday was the world premiere of our film, “Plan 19 from Outer Space” at Kensington Library! We rolled out the red carpet, did the worm, had a photo session with the paparazzi, grabbed some popcorn and watched all our hard work on the big screen! After the screening we had a dance party with facepainting, and of course the… Read more →
Alien Invasion at Kensington!!
They’ve landed! And they’re making a movie! Over at Kensington we are having a blast – we finished constructing our Mars landscape, paper mached our moon rocks, added finishing globs of paint. Now we’re ready to start filming! We have a mad scientist, his evil assistant, a ticked-off alien who just wants to eat his spaghetti in peace, and a… Read more →