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Wheel-up Chair Gordon Guerra, Cedric Mendes, Naeem Wilson Efficient wheelchair design, inspired by a video game, that allows people to cross over curbs. Digital design & fabrication was used for the wheelchair frame and gear train. Several kinds of motors are incorporated into the physical programming that uses an Arduino platform (programmed with Modkit). \ Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn is a program of the South End Technology Center @ Tent City, a Timothy Smith Computer Learning & Education Center. Our purpose is to enable people to become producers of knowledge and sharers of ideas. For the past ten years, Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn has offered over 300 teenaged youth an awesome educational experience, meaningful work, and an opportunity to serve their communities. These youth teachers have taught creative science and technologies in after- school and summer programs to over 3000 elementary and middle school children from over 30 Boston community organizations. The aim of Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn is to create a critical mass of Boston youth engaged in creative technologies and sciences. These youth teachers not only influence change in the lives of Boston youth and their neighborhoods; they also catalyze cultural change in their schools and communities about what is possible to achieve in science, technology, engineering and math. The youth teachers you meet today spent every Saturday from April to June LEARNING emerging technologies and sciences at the MIT Media Laboratory and the South End Technology Center. This summer, the youth teachers have been BUILDING and TEACHING. They worked over 20 hours a week for 6 weeks to bring their new inventions and ideas to life. At the same time, these youth teachers have been sharing what they learned with 400 Boston elementary and middle school youth in free summer technology and science camps. Welcome Friends and Family to the Youth Teacher Project Exposition Saturday August 18, 2012 1:00 pm through 4:00 pm We invite you to enjoy our innovations and experience our success! South End Technology Center @ Tent City 359 Columbus Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02116 617.578.0597

2012 Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn Project Expo Program

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This is the program from the 2012 Project Expo of the Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn Program. It gives an overview of the program and describes the collaborative projects designed and built by 30 teenaged youth teachers to solve a problem in their community they thought important. Each project incorporated at least three of the five technologies taught: computer programming, physical programming, digital design and fabrication, energy alternatives and graphic design.

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Page 1: 2012 Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn Project Expo Program

Wheel-up Chair Gordon Guerra, Cedric Mendes, Naeem Wilson

Efficient wheelchair design, inspired by a video game, that allows people to cross over curbs. Digital design & fabrication was used for the wheelchair frame and gear train. Several kinds of motors

are incorporated into the physical programming that uses an Arduino platform (programmed with Modkit).

\

Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn is a program of the South End Technology Center @ Tent City, a Timothy Smith Computer

Learning & Education Center.!Our purpose is to enable people to become producers of knowledge and sharers of ideas. For the past

ten years, Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn has offered over 300 teenaged youth an awesome educational experience, meaningful

work, and an opportunity to serve their communities. These youth teachers have taught creative science and technologies in after-

school and summer programs to over 3000 elementary and middle school children from over 30 Boston community organizations.

The aim of Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn is to create a critical mass of Boston youth engaged in creative technologies and sciences. These youth teachers not only influence change in the lives of

Boston youth and their neighborhoods; they also catalyze cultural change in their schools and communities about what is possible to

achieve in science, technology, engineering and math.

The youth teachers you meet today spent every Saturday from April to June LEARNING emerging technologies and sciences at the MIT Media Laboratory and the South End Technology Center.

This summer, the youth teachers have been BUILDING and TEACHING. They worked over 20 hours a week for 6 weeks to

bring their new inventions and ideas to life. At the same time, these youth teachers have been sharing what they learned with 400 Boston elementary and middle school youth in free summer

technology and science camps.

Welcome Friends and Family to the

Youth Teacher Project Exposition

Saturday August 18, 2012 1:00 pm through 4:00 pm

We invite you to enjoy our innovations and experience our success!

South End Technology Center @ Tent City 359 Columbus Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02116

617.578.0597!

Page 2: 2012 Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn Project Expo Program

Many thanks for their support and resources to:

Timothy Smith Network ! MIT Media Lab Center for Bits & Atoms, Lifelong Kindergarten Group & High Low Technology Group !

Boston Centers for Youth and Families ! Barr Foundation ! Museum of Science, Boston ! Harold Whitworth Pierce Charitable Trust ! Paul & Edith Babson Foundation! Hyams Foundation ! Massachusetts Cultural Council ! Boston Private Industry Council

! Martin Luther King Jr. Summer Scholars Program ! Touch 106.1 FM Radio Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ! Boston

Youth Fund ! ABCD Summer Works ! Cognizant Make the Future ! Boston Parks and Recreation ! Glenville Terrace

AutoBody ! Modkit ! Domenic J. Basile ! Suffolk County District Attorney’s Asset Forfeiture Community Reinvestment Program ! The

Archdale Community Center Council ! American Society of Mechanical Engineers ! Mel King Institute for Community Building

! United for a Fair Economy & so many individual supporters!

2012 Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn Projects! SuperFlash \

Adeola Adeniyi, Rafael Baez, Fernando Burgos, Korlu Jallah

A hat that charges a phone during the day using solar power and lights up in the dark. It incorporates physical programming with e-Textile Lilypad/Arduino technology (programmed with Modkit), electronic

circuitry, solar panels, and computerized embroidery.

Fashion Tech Julia Alexis, Safwa Ali, Davonna Dinkins, Santos Gutierrez,

Olivia Murphy

Lovingly-sewn transforming dress that changes style & lights up in response to sound. It incorporates physical programming with e-Textile LilyPad/Arduino technology (programmed with Modkit)

using light & touch sensor inputs; motor, LEDs, & el wire outputs.

iBike

Gerard Potts, Hassan Sakhta, Jalen Wiggins, Joshua Yu

A energy-alternative bicycle-powered generator that incorporates electronics (recycled power inverter, motor, car battery) creative woodworking (recycled stand), digital fabrication (safety box &

sign) and power generation (recycled bicycle).

NightLife Stairs Sarah Suazo, Shameya Vass, Dominique York

Staircase that lights up and plays music to help those with hearing and sight challenges. It involved extensive woodworking and

electrical wiring, input pressure and light sensors and output LED lights and sound. An Arduino board was used as the physical

programming platform (programmed with Modkit).

Musical Basketball

Christelle Benjamin, Neuza Gomes, Chanti Heredia, Elias Joseph

Basketball Court that senses if you have put the ball through the basket and responds with music. Innovative touch sensors are

inputs to the Arduino platform (programmed with Modkit). The output is a speaker. The project also incorporates computer

programming platform Scratch and a Scratchboard.

iGuide

Somtoo Ebele, Renic Franklin, James Macglashing, Sule Rene-Carthy

A robot mounted with a screen that displays information about the South End Technology Center @ Tent City and gives a tour. The

physical programming uses the Arduino platform with several motors as outputs. The computer programming was done with the Scratch Platform. The robot frame was made using digital design

& fabrication and incorporates recycled toy parts.

Appreciation for our community organization partners:

!SETC Core Program Camfield/Lenox Estates

Castle Square Tenants Association Catholic Charities @ St. Peters

CharlesNewtown Co-op Curry Room @ Theroch Housing

Festival Betances Keylatch Program

Leahy-Holloran Community Center Massive Dragons

Salvation Army – South End Shelburne Community Center South End Technology Center

Joseph M. Tierney Learning Center Tobin Community Center

Vine Street Community Center

Roslindale Hub BCYF Archdale Community Center BCYF Gallivan Community Center

BCYF Mildred Ave. Community Center BCYF Roslindale Community Center ROCKS! @Flaherty Pool @ Mildred

Gratitude to those who helped our youth teachers:

DIRECTOR: !Mel King

STAFF: Diana Arguello Ed Baafi!!!Susan Klimczak

!!Amon Millner !!Donna Parker

COLLEGE MENTORS: Beckett Dunning!!!Phi Ngo!!!!!

Stacy Ogierumwense !!!David

Solomon!!!Alex Olivier!!

VOLUNTEER EDUCATORS: Shirronda Almeida ! Patrick

Conrad ! Andrea Cuadra ! Tien

Dao ! Micah Eckhart ! Champika Fernanda ! Mark Greenlaw ! Eva Kerr ! Pamela

King ! Michael King ! Ming Kuo ! !Sherry Lassiter ! Wanjiku Mwangi ! Colin Reisdorf!!! Rica Rose Roque Adrian Santiago !Jason Talbot ! Janice Ward ! Susanna Yee

! Ashley Yu

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