Fall 2022 Project Leaders Projects
As an ongoing partnership with the CAMBA and Dock St., Beam Center leads after-school programming in different CAMBA sites. Our Project Leaders program is focused on skill development, social-emotional learning, and healing-centered programming. For the last couple of months, they have been leading many fun, interactive, and cool projects; take a look at the project below to see what they created.
Projects in CAMBA Sites
Light Painting
Name Tags
Each year as an introductory project, Project Leaders makes name tags to get to know and connect with the students. This year they made 3D name tags. Each name tag was made with thin cardboard, clothespins, and hot glue and decorated with markers and air dry clay.
Dancing Oobleck
Oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid substance that can change into a solid or a liquid depending on its force. This was a short one-day project which engaged the kids with each other and Project Leaders. Check out our recent Instagram post to see some oobleck dance.
Light Painting is a fun and cool project that involves American Sign Language (ASL) to create a message using light. This engaged youth in learning how to make LED light circuits, developing copper switches for the LED light, and most importantly, introduced them to sign language
Audio Time Capsule
Audio Time Capsule is a cardboard box that works as a time capsule for students to send a message to their future selves. Youth recorded their messages into an audio recording module called Greeting Card Chip and placed it into the box. They will open it at the end of the school year and listen to the message from their past selves.
Projects in Dock St. School
Similar to the program’s work with CAMBA after-school sites, a cohort of Project Leaders at Beam designs projects for youth at Dock Street and facilitates them at the school.
Cyanotype Light Boxes
This project involved students developing their own photographs using cyanotype chemicals, paper, light and circuitry by adding switches to LED strips. They created an image that includes their name and symbols of their identity or things that relate to who they are, using objects, shapes, or drawings on transparency.
Sound Visualization Boombox
The bluetooth boombox is made using wood, an exciter (the core component of a speaker), a mesh strainer and mini styrofoam balls. Listeners will be able to see sound vibrations visually while playing songs! A filter is placed on top of the homemade speaker with multicolored styrofoam balls. This visualizes the sound vibrations coming through the speaker when the styrofoam balls bounce up and down. This project introduces students to basic woodworking and electronics skills, such as stripping wires and soldering, to complete the boombox circuit.
