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Making Puppet Circuits

October 24, 2018 | Public Programs

The Prototyping Puppets project presents a craft-based prototyping project for STEM education of early middle school level students in informal learning. The project combines crafting and performing of hybrid puppets. It was pilot tested in two expert workshops (n=6 and n=10), which focused on crafting practices and materials and two student workshops (n=8 and n=9), which included performance elements. The resulting data back the main design concept to combine craft and performance in a STEM-focused maker project. They suggest particular focus on key elements of our educational scaffolding that focus on material performance in combination with crafting. We close with an outlook toward emerging changes as references for related work.

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    Principal Investigator
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Crystal Eng
    Project Staff
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Citation

    Publication Name: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Design, Learning and Innovation (DLI 2018) (Oct 24-26, 2018 Braga, Portugal)
    Page Number: 418-428

    Funders

    NSF
    Funding Program: AISL
    Award Number: 1612686
    Resource Type: Reference Materials
    Discipline: Art, music, and theater | Computing and information science
    Audience: Middle School Children (11-13) | Educators/Teachers | Museum/ISE Professionals
    Environment Type: Public Programs | Making and Tinkering Programs | Theater Programs

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