Week 6
This week team STEAMineer had our first playtest with students in our audience! From Week 5 we combined the strongest elements of our prototype activities into an activity for our playtest. We were originally going to incorporate the Brainstorming Blocks Interaction as an introductory activity, but due to time constraints identified while testing with our faculty, […]
Week 5
Team STEAMineer started out Week 5 sharing our findings from our research at the end of Week 4. We also received our first shipment of Arduinos! On Monday we shared examples of projects we liked with interactions we thought could be successful. Max shared a digital game with a plant-growth-harvest cycle as the main storyline. […]
Week 4
Week Four at the ETC is synonymous with Quarter Walk-arounds. Quarter Walk-arounds feature 15-minute rotations of ETC faculty and staff between project rooms. While the faculty are in the room, students give a quick presentation about their project and their direction for the project. The remainder of the time is dedicated to faculty giving their […]
Week 3
Week 3 saw Team STEAMineer collaborating as a team and with faculty and subject matter experts to narrow our focus and prepare for quarters. We started out the week meeting with our faculty to review our progress and share our direction. As a team we had identified that we wanted more of a behavior change […]
Week 1
Welcome! We are Team STEAMineer. We are a graduate student project at the CMU’s Entertainment Technology Center exploring and experimenting with best practices for incorporating Game Design and technology into maker-centered learning. Based on the STEAM cart model implemented by 2-Bit Circus Foundation, we are seeing how technology can be used to enhance maker learning […]
Week 2
Welcome to Week 2! Now that we’ve kicked off our semester we started week 2 eager to learn more and keep exploring the maker-centered learning community. We started the week off having lunch as a team! This gave us the opportunity to get to know one another better and try a smorgasbord of different foods. […]