LaSER is an after-school STEM/Maker/FLL club at a Seattle elementary school. These are notes about what we did in our first year, and how we organized it. Lafayette Science, Engineering, and Robotics did several projects in its first year. * We fielded several FLL teams * We designed Martian habitats and 3D-printed them * We built our own copy of David Gilday's MIndCuber * We designed some wild planes and laser-cut the parts out In organizing the club, the parent volunteers made efficient use of the equipment available, parallelizing tasks where possible. We also tried to find opportunities to promote our "STICK" concepts of engineering: * Simplicity * Tradeoffs * Iteration * Constraints * Keep Moving Forward

1. LaSER Kids
What We Made
This Year
http://laserclub.blogspot.com/

2. Projects
• FLL – First LEGO League teams
• Rubik’s Cube Solver
• 3D Printing

3. Secret Agenda

4. Secret Agenda
• Simplicity
• Tradeoffs
• Iterating
• Constraints
• Keep Moving Forward

5. Secret Agenda
• Simplicity
• Tradeoffs
• Iterating
• Constraints
• Keep Moving Forward

6. Secret Agenda
• Simplicity STICK –
• Tradeoffs The How-To Of
STEM’s
• Iterating
Engineering
• Constraints
• Keep Moving Forward

7. FLL Teams

8. FLL Teams

9. Programming

10. Programming

11. Common Base

13. FLL Teams

14. Build
A
Cube
Solver
?

15. Build It In Stages

16. Build It In Stages
• Rotate Cube – 1 dimension

17. Build It In Stages
• Rotate Cube – 1 dimension
• Rotate Cube – 2 dimensions

18. Build It In Stages
• Rotate Cube – 1 dimension
• Rotate Cube – 2 dimensions
• Rotate Cube Face  SUCCESS

19. Build It In Stages
• Rotate Cube – 1 dimension
• Rotate Cube – 2 dimensions
• Rotate Cube Face  SUCCESS

20. MindCuber

21. MindCuber
By David Gilday

23. MindCuber

24. MindCuber
DEMO

26. Design a
Martian Habitat

28. 3D Printing – CAD?

29. 3D Printing – CAD?
• Simple to learn

30. 3D Printing – CAD?
• Simple to learn
• Easy to export to fullfilment

31. 3D Printing – CAD?
• Simple to learn
• Easy to export to fullfilment
• Web-based

32. Tinkercad

33. Tinkercad

34. Tinkercad

35. Results

36. LaSER Kids
What We Made
This Year
http://laserclub.blogspot.com/