Chabot Space and Science center is tucked in Joaquin Miller Park’s landscape and is a small yet enticing science museum. Just as other museums and libraries have been doing the past few years, they have created their own makerspace called “Project Create”, part through the generosity of Chevron Corporation. It is divided up into 8 […]

Holy Names High School (HNHS) is an all-girls school in the hills of Oakland and part of the educational ministry of the Sisters of the Holy Names. They have partnered with Project Lead the Way’s Engineering Design and Computer Science programs which provides teacher training as well as curriculum support. During the half week before […]

I took the first lesson of Exploratorium’s “Exploring Light: Hands-on Activities and Strategies for Teachers” on Coursera and have already learned more than I expected in two hours. I learned about how perception can be tricky and why, Ames room – a popular optical illusion demonstration, cow’s eye dissection (because they are similar to human’s […]

Over the course of this school year, I have been volunteering with KFS School to help them plan an implementation of a makerspace, NGSS and Common Core aligned maker education/STEAM curriculum, and aiding with the parental support of the program. This reflection will be focusing on my most recent 2 hour session at the school, […]