Making Makers: A Drill Press is a Girl's Best Friend (A Boy's, too)
Channel: Classroom20LIVE
Date: 09/04/2016

Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinar presented by Coco Kaleel (@veryhappyrobot), Making Makers: A Drill Press is a Girl's Best Friend (A Boy's, too), April 9, 2016. 
There are so many great young people who are using technology in amazing ways, and we are thrilled to have one of them presenting for us this week. Coco Kaleel was a keynote presenter for the Student Technology Conference in January, 2016 and was so inspiring we knew we had to invite her to present for us. Coco is an 8th grader from California who supports and inspires technology novices and enthusiasts with her website. Coco hopes to help make makers and inspire innovators by demystifying technology and tools. She wants students and educators to not be intimidated by machinery that can help them collaboratively and creatively expand their worlds as makers. Coco’s “happy place” is in the garage or at her local hackerspace where she uses industrial laser cutters, a lathe, a drill press, a grinder/buffer, and saws like saber, fret, mitre, table, and hack. Coco will walk the audience along her path with technology and discuss getting started with soldering, learning to use Arduino in projects, and understanding software to learn 3D printing. She’ll also highlight summer camps, publications and websites that inspired her. She’ll bring all of these elements together when she talks about her summer challenge to build a flying tricopter by sourcing and making her own parts. The sky’s the limit when girls and boys have the tools. 
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