SCOPES-DF hosts virtual webinars, workshops, and meetups with community members and experts in digital fabrication and k-12 education. Check out our video recordings below and sign-up to hear about future gatherings!
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Our global community grows and stays connected through webinars, workshops, and meet-ups. Members of our community share their work with each other to learn new technologies, teaching approaches, and impactful projects.
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Educational Resources
SCOPES-DF offers educational resources in addition to the community-contributed lesson plans.
Fab I Can Statements
The Fab I Can Statements are an assessment framework that teachers can use to measure achievement in the K-12 digital fabrication learning experience.
The SCOPES-DF Playbook
This playbook was developed during an embedded year of teaching and learning in STEM schools and includes theoretical and practical approaches to digital fabrication learning in the classroom.
Blog Posts
Educators, staff, and community members contribute to the SCOPES-DF blog to share learnings, educational projects, and innovations in digital fabrication education across the globe.
Workshop: Digital Fabrication and Portfolio Assessment
Community Participants: Teresa Lampe
Meetup: Social Emotional Learning June 2020
Community Participants: Sonya Pryor-Jones
Virtual Workshop: PancakeBot Setup, June 2020
Community Participants: Matthew Weightman and Sara D’Urzo
Virtual Workshop: 3D Design Workflows, May 2020
Community Participants: Daniel Smithwick, Danielle Martin, and Katy Perry
Virtual Workshop: Engineering Design – Cardboard Containers, April 2020
Community Participants: Aidan Mullaney, Alethea Campbell, Liz Whitewolf, Brian Purvis, and Andrea Lang.
Webinar: Women Making History, March 2020
The Fab Foundation’s Engagement and Program Manager for SCOPES-DF, Liz Whitewolf, hosts a panel of amazing women making history through digital fabrication and education. These panelists share their journeys and how they are handling the new normal.
Community Participants: Ilaria La Mana, Andrea Fields, Ellie Buehler, and Nina Bartuto.
Webinar: Culturally Relevant Digital Fabrication, February 2020
The Fab Foundation’s Dr. Nettrice Gaskins hosts a panel of teachers as they share their work and answer questions about what it means to be culturally relevant with digital fabrication tools and technologies. The webinar explores how digital fabrication can be used as a tool for equity and to recognize diverse ways of learning and ‘fabbing’, including Marvel’s Black Panther, art and design, computation, social justice and the Reconstruction era.
Community Participants: Nettrice Gaskins, Matt Zigler, Kim Stanley, and Ainsley Buckner
Webinar: PancakeBot with Miguel Valenzuela, December 2019
Take your pancakes to the next level! Come hear from Miguel Valenzuela who shows you how with his PancakeBot. Not only that, but Miguel has made lessons available on the SCOPES-DF platform for teachers to use in the classroom. Watch this webinar to hear his story, see the lesson collection he’s created, and find out how you can get a PancakeBot for your classroom and maker space.
Community Participants: Miguel Valenzuela
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Webinar: Fabricating Change in Mental Wellness, May 2019
In recognition of Mental Health and Wellness Month, the Fab Lab at Intermediate Unit One presents their special collection of digital fabrication lessons that they’ve used in their Fab Lab to provide emotional and mental health support to students. Intermediate Unit 1 is a regional educational agency that strives to provide educational support to the students, parents, educators, school administrators, and the communities throughout southwestern Pennsylvania.
Community Participants: Jenny Lent, Michelle Voithofer, Joe Mahoney, John Kopp, and Kevin McKee
Webinar: Learn Chibitronics with Jie Qi, March 2019
The SCOPES-DF Program Manager, Dr. Nettrice Gaskins, joins Jie Qi and shares the classroom lesson she developed using a Chibi Chip micro-controller that allows students to explore printmaking and electronics.
Community Participants: Jie Qi and Nettrice Gaskins