CITC Fab Lab

We are Cook Inlet Tribal Council’s Fabrication Lab. We are based out of Anchorage Alaska serving Alaska Native and American Indian students based in the Anchorage school district. We teach design, building, and fabrication with a cultural emphasis. Our different grants serve different age ranges of students, helping to promote their full science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics potential. Through creative exploration and experimentation processes, our students are discovering the skills they’ll need as Alaska’s next generation of engineers, designers, artists and innovators. With the help from our Fab Lab Instructors, students have been using the Fab Lab to build traditional model kayaks, light up drums, light up dance fans and so much more. Our unique teams comes from very diverse backgrounds, helping stitch all of the components necessary to make this a great place to learn, grow, and fabricate!

Lesson Plans

One of our partner schools asked us if we had coat hangers for their lab coats We did and we…
Often we don t realize that objects we use today come from centuries of engineering of ingenuity in harsh conditions…
Learn to bead and learn binary at the same time Use the ASCII table to bead your name in binary…
This lesson will help students understand the ranked choice voting system This system is used in Australia the state of…
Students will use fab lab tools to create a custom sundial for their area and learn how to mark it…
This lesson will cover a method for testing the insulation properties of a given material using water It discusses how…
This is a basic tutorial on how to create an art stencil out of cardboard or paper It can also…
This lesson shares how to make a unique bracelet design that is both fun easily customized and can be made…
This lesson is on how to make a unique fire making tool called a Fire Piston It ignites a small…
Combine tradition and technology in learning how to make a glowing Yup ik dance fan They were used in winter…
This lesson takes the classical mask making style of the indigenous people of Alaska and combines it with tech based…
Create your own personalized light box that includes LED strands and DC power supply The image LED light colors and…
Here s a simple lesson for creating a cool LED lighted name tag for yourself or a whole classroom…
This is a Traditional native Game played by North East Woodland Indigenous People The Game was originally made withe birch…
Learn about electricity and build a simple circuit with a switch using some very simple materials…

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