News from Room 402 / November 2012
Above: For his final cartography project, Max located an Indonesian island in Google Maps and asked a number of people what they thought it was based on its silhouette. He screenprinted the island on the front of his shirt, and the back depicts the responses. We closed the quarter on Friday with a number of … Read more
GPS + Compasses = Let’s go geocaching and orienteering!
Thanks to a generous donation via DonorsChoose.org from the folks at Seattle-based Groundspeak, Room 402 just received a brand new Garmin GPS and 6 new compasses! We’re planning a field trip for early November to the Queens Museum of Art to check out the scale model of New York City and to do some geocaching … Read more
News from Room 402 / September 2012
Above: Ms. Fay and I traveled to Southeast Asia this summer, thanks to a Fund for Teachers grant we received through our work with The Sixteen Project. Learn more here, and if you’re a teacher, check out http://www.fundforteachers.org/. Cartography: This course is all about mapping. We look at maps from political, artistic, digital, emotional and mathematical … Read more
Room 402 (Technovation + Microsoft) updates
Above: Martha, Mackenzie, Dhensel, Iris, Cynthia and Teresa at the top of Lombard Street in San Francisco – May 2012 1) Technovation teams: Last spring, Julie Fetzner and I coached 11 girls through the Technovation competition, a program aimed at inspiring young women to enter tech fields through a mobile app design challenge. We sent … Read more
News from Room 402 / Early April, 2012
Above: Kevin and Izzy working on their map projection project on the whiteboard walls Cartography: This course uses mapping to ask questions about how we perceive the world, how images are used to illustrate statistics and tell stories, and how we translate 3D spaces to 2D surfaces. We began the course by drawing outlines of the … Read more
Thank you, Sixteen!
Dear Sixteen, Ms. Fay and I found out a week or so ago that, thanks to The Sixteen Project, we will have the opportunity to travel through Southeast Asia this summer to do ethnographic fieldwork – the same type of work you all do in our classes. We’re expecting to visit Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and … Read more
News from Room 402 / Mid-March, 2012
Above: The final film in Sixteen is a documentary of a youth subculture. “Bronies” refers to boys (and men) who watch “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.” Game Design: The final challenge concludes on Wednesday! The photo on the homepage of this site is of Maria working on her final game; you can find additional … Read more
