Tuttle 4-H STEM Club meets at the Tuttle Library
The STEM club meets once a month on Wednesday at 3:30 pm. Check our Meeting Room Calendar on the Home page for dates.
The Tuttle 4-H STEM Club is learning how to create video games using Makey-Makey kits and coding in Scratch!
Makey Makey is an invention kit developed by two students from MIT. Each Makey Makey kit includes supplies for building simple inventions using a circuit board and alligator clips. The kits are plugged in to a computer via a USB cable and programmed using a browser and a simple user-friendly coding language called Scratch. Makey Makey is designed to utilize many common objects as conductive material for electrical signals. For example, a Makey Makey kit can be used to make an electronic piano out of bananas by connecting each banana to a note then playing the bananas like piano keys.
Funding for the event was provided by a grant from the Hille Family Foundation and the Oklahoma 4-H Foundation. Coordinating the event was a long-term group effort. The club applied for the grant in March and spent several months preparing for the event at the library. 4-H STEM Club members and their parents demonstrated leadership and provided instructions for the Makey Makey program. Prior to the event, Noah Schmidt and his father Steve Schmidt taught an introduction to electrical circuits. During the event, Jayse Morgan and his mother Brooke Morgan taught the students how to hook up and code the Makey Makey devices.
The Tuttle 4-H STEM Club is learning how to create video games using Makey-Makey kits and coding in Scratch!
Makey Makey is an invention kit developed by two students from MIT. Each Makey Makey kit includes supplies for building simple inventions using a circuit board and alligator clips. The kits are plugged in to a computer via a USB cable and programmed using a browser and a simple user-friendly coding language called Scratch. Makey Makey is designed to utilize many common objects as conductive material for electrical signals. For example, a Makey Makey kit can be used to make an electronic piano out of bananas by connecting each banana to a note then playing the bananas like piano keys.
Funding for the event was provided by a grant from the Hille Family Foundation and the Oklahoma 4-H Foundation. Coordinating the event was a long-term group effort. The club applied for the grant in March and spent several months preparing for the event at the library. 4-H STEM Club members and their parents demonstrated leadership and provided instructions for the Makey Makey program. Prior to the event, Noah Schmidt and his father Steve Schmidt taught an introduction to electrical circuits. During the event, Jayse Morgan and his mother Brooke Morgan taught the students how to hook up and code the Makey Makey devices.