Share Paper: Fab@School: Children’s Engineering across the Curriculum in Your Classroom
Abstract: Digital fabrication is the use of technology to "make (almost) anything" yourself...a phrase which was coined by Neil Gershenfeld at the MIT Media Lab. The digital fabrication process allows users to interchange from 2D idea to 3D object by becoming manufacturers and engineers capable of not only construction, but deconstruction and reconstruction as well. It is the same process that is used to create product packaging, such as cereal boxes, and even the creation of cars - from concept to full-scale reality. This workshop will provide a hands-on experience, in which the participants will make their own creations by digitally ...