This past school year, students from across NYC have joined Mouse at our monthly Maker Nights to build, craft, make, and design with technology.  In addition to these afterschool maker events, Mouse also hosted our first ever Maker Saturday on April 16th. 

Mouse Maker Saturday and Maker Nights are free and open to all NYC high school students who want a space to try coding, building circuits, making games or designing in 3D for the first time. Each event takes place at our very own Mouse learning space in lower Manhattan, hosted by Mouse staff and volunteers that work in professional STEM fields.

At our first ever Maker Saturday, makers of all ages came together to tinker, code, and make at 7 different stations with Mouse staff and volunteers from 4 organizations. Each station focused on a different type of making.

Mouse Maker Saturday “Make Stations:"

• Climate Game Jam, hosted by BrainPop
• Collaborative Drawing, hosted by GroundSwell
• Coding Corner, hosted by Roy Venegas and Elena Barrio
• DIY Game Controllers with Makey Makey
• LED Crafting with Arduinos
• Mouse Design Challenge (View Design Challenge projects)
• Paper Circuits and 3D Design, hosted by MakerState

Each station offered students the ability to try a different STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, or math) focused project for the first time, or to expand their skills by learning from experts that hosted each station. In addition, students could add their own drawing to our collaborative whiteboard wall.

The day was divided into two sessions with a lunch in between each session. At the end of the day, students shared highlights about what they learned and made. To check out some of these projects, visit our Mouse Maker Hall of Fame.

Thanks to all of our volunteers that joined us at Maker Saturday and huge shoutout to our student makers from across NYC for making with us!

Visit our upcoming events to learn about our next Maker events, or sign up for our next Maker Night on Wednesday, May 25th here.