CCDS Makerspace

Official Twitter account of the Cincinnati @CountryDay Makerspace.
Watch us design, tinker, create, innovate, experiment, learn, and play!

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@CountryDay InvenTeam's #EurekaFest2024 presentation & showcase was a huge success!

@MITBeaverworks selected our invention, IllumiLane, to receive the Golden Beaver Award!!!!

@LemelsonMIT gave us the Excellence in Communications Award!!

So proud of this team! #WeAreCountryDay

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The @CountryDay Makerspace has moved to Instagram! Check out our posts on Instagram at CCDS_Makerspace -- we hope to see you there! #WeAreCountryDay

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Back in May, Maker Crew members Zsofia & Greta Varga designed letter tiles @CountryDay language specialists to use with students. We laser cut some at school and some at UC's Ground Floor Makerspace over the summer. Makers helping little learners! #WeAreCountryDay

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After building fettuccine structures, watching them fail, and learning some basics of structural engineering, @CountryDay Engineering students created and tested new fettuccine structures that met supply & design constraints. Engineering design process in action! #WeAreCountryDay

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Busy sticker printing day in the @CountryDay Makerspace! Sophomore Evelyn designed signage, including a menu & updated logo, for the Birdfeeder cart. Ms. DiMatteo's 8th grade English classes designed stickers to promote the books they read this summer. Fantastic! #WeAreCountryDay

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Engineering students built structures out of fettuccine and tape to hold packs of cardstock. They had limited supplies and several design constraints. Lots of ah-ha moments during testing with learnings to apply to the second designs next week! @CountryDay #WeAreCountryDay

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The @CountryDay InvenTeam presented their invention to the college reps who attended Senior College Night this week. So fun to watch this group of young inventors in action -- they know their stuff and do such a fantastic job answering questions! #WeAreCountryDay

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Maker Crew's 2D Design Team leaders Addie & Lucia launched a new student-run 2D design business for @CountryDay faculty & staff. School has not yet started, but these seniors have been busy designing & printing stickers and posters for faculty/staff. Dedication! @WeAreCountryDay

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The @CountryDay InvenTeam is at #EurekaFest2024! Watch us present our patent-pending bicycle safety invention on Wednesday, June 12 at 10am here: https://t.co/JjFQ7tE5af WE. ARE. SO. EXCITED!!! #WeAreCountryDay @LemelsonMIT

[Lemelson-MIT Program @LemelsonMIT]

Cynthia Breazeal will be delivering the keynote address at this year's EurekaFest!

🗓️ Wednesday, June 13
🕐 1:30 PM
🏢 MIT's Building 10 (Room 250)

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The @CountryDay InvenTeam gave their #EurekaFest2024 presentation to the Cincinnati Country Day faculty and staff today! We are so proud of this group of hardworking, dedicated, creative young inventors! Getting excited for EurekaFest next week! #WeAreCountryDay @LemelsonMIT

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Check out sophomore Zofia's LED matrix display for pixel art. She animated quite a few of her own BMPs! @CountryDay #WeAreCountryDay @jmeb96

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It was Final Project Demo Day in Computer Science 2! All student projects were created with CircuitPython code, except for the AI sorters. Thanks to the students and faculty who stopped by to see the devices. Lots of excitement in the room! @CountryDay #WeAreCountryDay @jmeb96

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Lilly is a sophomore on our golf team -- check out her CS2 final project -- a mini-golf hole! Of course, the video didn't catch one of the many putts she made. This project was a fan-favorite! 🏌️‍♀️⛳️ @CountryDay #WeAreCountryDay @jmeb96

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May sure is a busy month! The #InvenTeam presented at assembly, improved the AI model, created & soldered a new circuit board, printed t-shirt designs, created materials for #EurekaFest2024, 3D printed cases, ate lots of pizza... and studied for AP exams! @CountryDay @LemelsonMIT

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Today was the 2nd annual Maker Crew chocolate bar making day! 3D print bar designs --> use vacuum former to make molds --> pour melted chocolate into molds. We even made an outlet cover-shaped chocolate bar! We will miss our Maker Crew seniors🎓🍫#WeAreCountryDay @CountryDay

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Computer Science 2 students begin work on their final projects by updating bootloaders, installing CircuitPython, and updating libraries on their microcontrollers. Lots of troubleshooting and ah-ha moments happening! @CountryDay #WeAreCountryDay

[MIT School of Engineering @MITEngineering]

We’re excited that Pathways to Invention, award-winning documentary supported by @LemelsonMIT and the School of Engineering, premieres on PBS in May. It follows twelve inventors as they develop technological solutions to problems in their communities. https://t.co/WG1GXMzdcH

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A @CountryDay junior, Kevin, used the Makerspace to create almost-life-size cardboard cutouts of a few friends for a project in his video production class. Love the creativity -- can't wait to see the final video! #WeAreCountryDay

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Computer Science 2 students trained an AI model to recognize handwritten numbers, tested each other's models, and shared learnings. After training their model, the class learned how a basic neural network's nodes and layers lead to "learning." #WeAreCountryDay @CountryDay