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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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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).
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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!
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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