KidsLab - a podcast for parents and educators passionate about STEAM education
Kids & Family:Education for Kids
I am talking to Bridget Hegarty about the SpinWheel. The SpinWheel is a small, colorful, programmable, wearable kit to facilitate student exploration of physics, engineering, and computer science.
Bridget is part of the SpinWheel Team, a group of volunteers with a passion for teaching science and building beautiful things.
She is a postdoc researcher in Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. As a kid, Bridget was always asking “why?” Luckily, her parents put up with her incessant questioning and taught her to love the process of discovering new information.
Bridget continues to pursue answers to her questions as a researcher, studying the microbes that survive in buildings. Outside of the lab, she shares her love of science and engineering by designing and leading activities that help participants, particularly girls, envision themselves as engineers. Through SpinWearables, she is excited to develop educational kits to inspire the next generation of engineers.
The SpinWheel is a colorful wearable programming kit. It can be “just” a stylish, cool, accessoire, but can also be programmed to be way more via the popular Arduino IDE. For example you can turn it into a step counter, a compass or an exploration tool for color and vision. No prior knowledge is required to program the spinwheel and it also comes with an educational guide that introduces you to the basics.
Roboy & Lucy with Rafael Hostettler
Otto DIY with Camilo Parra Palacio
Finch Robot 2.0 with Bambi Brewer
The Next-Generation Calliope Mini with Jørn Alraun
KryptoKids with Birgit Schlotter
Solarbotics with Dave Hrynkiw
TechnoChic with Natasha Dzurny
Bright Wearables with Debra Ansell
CodeGrades, PyperCard and Mu Editor with Nicholas Tollervey
Bloxels with Rob Bennet
The Raspberry Pi with James Robinson
NewTechKids with Deborah Carter
Scoutlab with Johannes Engelke
Foldio with Amir Baradaran
Momentix Toys with Anna Gilbertson and Alana Aamodt
Blockly with Neil Fraser
MicroBlocks with Bernat Romagosa
DroneBlocks with Dennis Baldwin
Tinkertoys with Sebastian Friedrich
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Smologies with Alie Ward
Super Simple Imagination Time With Caitie!
Mysteries About True Histories (M.A.T.H.)
The Count of Monte Cristo
Anne of Green Gables
Smash Boom Best: A funny, smart debate show for kids and family
Who Smarted? - Educational Podcast for Kids