Little Makers - a fablab for 5-11 yrs old
we run a small fablab in the school laboratory of www.littlegenius.it every
wednsday and friday afternoon.
Little Makers is a laboratory for testing and prototyping (a FabLab for
children) equipped with 3D printers self-built first and last generation, as
well as experimental instrumentation like computerized microscopes,
LittleBits, Lego Mindstorm robotics, microcontrollers, materials for
experiments with sound, inclined planes, Van Der Graft generators etc.
Through the development of practical skills and philosophy of prototyping
children between 6 and 10 years old will discover robotics, electric circuits
and digital devices also control remotely via web, learning to know and
control them, especially stimulating their technological creativity and not
in addition to the ability to examine the physical world and experience new
solutions through scientific-creative.
The workshop is open to all children between 6 and 11 years also not enrolled
in primary school Little Genius and takes place during extra curricular
activities between 16:15 and 17:15 CET.