July 11 @ SAT : Workshop 9: Final touches + Prep for Open House
Duration: 3 hours
Time: 10am - 1pm
Location: SAT
Facilitators: Priyanka, Sahil, Laura, Miley, Lizzie, Jess, Varsha
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Finalize prototypes, and keep the ideas that the students feel the most confident about. (example maze option 2 was more successful, present that)
Get ready for a celebration!
Presenting your work is as important as the work itself. so in addition to presenting ideas + cleaning up class, to get students to start thinking about how to explain their ideas to family and friends who will be visiting.
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Same materials as last week.
Chalk to make labels on the floor (optional for way-finding, but might be fun!)
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Tables all moved to the edge of the classroom in single file, to leave a large blank space in the middle, with prototypes scattered around. Cozy corner stays as is.
Warm up (play music)
This might have to happen in the media room where it is a little calmer and less distracting!
Spend 15 minutes sketching in your journals:
How your prototype turned out
How you want it to look
What is the most important feeling you want a visitor to fee when they enter the installation?
Main Activity
Step 1: Finalize prototypes (1 hour)
BREAK
Step 2: Arrange them in a way that a visitor can understand. You could use chalk to draw a path that the visitor should take through the workshop and label prototypes.
Step 3: Clean up the workshop!
Conclusion
Discuss who will present the following:
A summary of ALL the Let’s Build Great Things! at SAT program (Alternately, Priyanka or Rani video?)
The three teams final ideas (children should present this
Where the final design will be for the triennial, and all the elements that were combined.
(the following can be presented by situating participants at ‘stations’ but good to plan it out first)
Maze
Cave
Magic
waterfall
Nature
Cat + Birdhouse
Wayfinding
(any other elements missing on this list