Maker Sessions 2017-2018

These Saturday classes are designed for girls in 6th through 12th grade. Each session will focus using technology to design and create a certain type of object. No experience is necessary. Girls may attend any or all of the classes but they must register for each session separately. Each session is limited to 20 girls.

We will meet from 9:00-12:00 in the Computer Science labs located in the Science Center on the main campus of Lewis University.

• June 18-21, 2018 - GCT Summer Camp
  Registration and Details
• May 12, 2018
  TBD

  Upcoming Session
• April 14, 2018 - Website Design
  Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr... are just a few examples of dynamic websites. These sites are built using Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). HTML gives a website its structure while CSS gives it style. With the help of Code.org's Web Lab, we are going to build our very own website and personalize it using our own pictures or cute images of our pets 🐶 woof! We will learn how a web page is structured, how to insert images, hyperlinks and even create multiple pages. So, please make sure you know your Code.org user name and passwords. HTML is just the very first step of starting our journey in Website design and development! Here is an example of what you will be making: My Website

  Registration Closed
• March 24, 2018 - Cyber Security
  Maker Sessions are back! In this session we are going to learn about cyber security. Cyber security is important because it protects us from cyber criminals or better known as hackers, who use high tech tools to break into our computer networks so they can steal or just inconvenience us by tampering with our information :(. Yikes! To stop these bad guys, we need to learn their ways, So u know what? In the next session we are gonna be the hackers! We are gonna learn how they do it, so we can be better prepared to prevent them from breaking into our networks. You don't want to miss this, sign up today and let's get hacking!

  Registration Closed
• February 10, 2018 - Data Networks

  We are excited that Hillary Miller will be joining us in the next Maker Session! She will be sharing her skills about how data networks function and how these network work when we chat and share our stories on Snapchat!

  Hillary is a Senior IT Operations Manager at Ecolab. She has worked in the IT industry for almost 20 years, in various roles including IT Help Desk, Security, Service Management, and Operations and is currently responsible for monitoring all our infrastructure devices, ensuring our critical systems are recoverable in the event of a disaster. She is also responsible for the smooth operation of the Ecolab global data center facilities.

  Session Cancelled
• December 2, 2017 Raspberry Pi
  The girls will use Raspberry Pi to install an LCD screen and program it with python and make the screen come to life! We will make a display of your name, some random text, like Hello World! or Merry Christmas!, current date and time, and also make the Pi display its IP address.

  Registration Closed
• October 28, 2017 - App Lab
  Learn to create computer programs with App Lab. App Lab is a web-based programming tool, that lets you create short computer programs. Not only that, you can even share the programs with friends and family!

  Registration Closed