March 8, 2012: International Women's Day
In celebration of this holiday, we created videos about women whom we admire and inspire us!
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Animal Rights
The Topic: Animal Rights
The Project:
- Create a 30-90 second PSA raising awareness about an animal of your choice who needs our attention, care, and protection
- Design a T-shirt with your chosen animal and include a message or slogan
The Goal: To view all animals equally and with compassion
The Process: Over the course of 8 weeks, we learned about factory farms, animal shelters, endangered animals, and other ways animals are in need. We researched the process (from "farm" to table) of how we get our food. And compared "farm" animals to exotic/endangered animals. Are they viewed the same or differently?
At the beginning of this project, we were each given a notebook to record notes, thoughts, and personal stories of how we help animals. We also decorated these notebooks with pictures and stickers of our favorite animals and quotes.
After all our research, we discussed our findings and feelings about animals. While we all love animals and think they are cute, there was a lot we didn't know about them and how they are treated. Each girl chose an animal to focus on and then began writing a script for the PSA. We each recorded our script, which focused on one animal, why that animal is in need, and how we can take action to help, protect, or raise awareness for that animal. To create our PSA, we made a picture montage and used our script as narration.
Next, we took all we had learned about our animal and designed a t-shirt with a message or slogan. We used Photoshop to draw and digitally create our designs, then uploaded them to Spreadshirt.com and printed them - so everyone got a shirt with their design on it!
We really learned a lot about animals and where our food actually comes from. While we are still kids and aren't all able/willing to change where we get our food or buy our clothes, we can certainly talk to our parents about what we've learned and try to make whatever lifestyle changes we can to help animals. We hope you can do the same.
The Products:
Our completed PSA's can be found here.
Our T-shirt designs are here and can also be purchased on Spreadshirt.com!
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| Pandas Are Friends Don't Kill Me |
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| Plz Don't Eat Me Oink Oink Oink |
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| Not A Big Bad Wolf |
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| Protect Me or Else I'll Eat U!!! |
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| Help Shelter Animals! |
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| I Might Be Cute But I Can't Be Abused Woof Woof |
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| Save Homeless Puppies |
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| Pandas Never Hurt You Why Hurt Them? |
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| I Miss My Dad, Home, Family |
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Ready for Another Year of LunaTech
This year, we've got a lot of new faces and are excited to explore, design, and create new media! Some of this years project themes include:
- robotics
- graphic design
- audio engineering
- video production
- DIY Science
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Thoughts of Japan
After hearing of the disaster in Japan we wanted to do something to show our support. Together, we created several collages and posters and put them on display in The MYC.
Fun with Playdough
Ever made your own playdough? It's super easy! And you probably have everything you need at home already. Though it was a bit messy, we had a lot of fun making our own playdough. Once it was made we customized it with food coloring. See below for the materials and instructions. Enjoy!
Ingredients
3 cups boiling water
3 cups flour
1 1/2 cups salt
1 1/2 tbs vegetable oil
3 tsp cream of tartar
Directions
Mix all ingredients except for the flour in a large bowl.
Once well mixed, add flour.
Stir continuously until the dough leaves the sides of the bowl.
Once well mixed, remove from bowl and knead on floured surface.
If the dough is too sticky, add more flour.
Store in an airtight container and refrigerate.
Color with food coloring if desired.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Cardboard Automata
For our second project in our Maker Series we built Cardboard Automata. They are a playful way to explore simple machine elements such as cams, levers, and linkages, while creating a mechanical sculpture.
We used simple materials that you could find around your house:
- cardboard
- duct tape
- scissors
- straw
- hot glue gun
- Foamies
- skewer sticks
Check out how it works
This project was inspired by creations from the Tinkering Studio at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, Ca. Instructions for this project can be found here.
Water Wars!
The Challenge
Build a boat that can hold 25 pennies for 10 seconds; 50 pennies; 75 pennies; 100 pennies.
The Materials
straws, duct tape, plastic wrap
We worked in teams and individually to build our boats. We designed boats that were long, short, wide, and deep. There were many different designs. Almost all of the boats held 25 pennies for 10 seconds. A few held 50 pennies for 10 seconds.
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