Sylvia's Super-Awesome Maker Show! - Joey Hudy http://sylviashow.com/tags/joey-hudy en My CRAZY DC Adventure http://sylviashow.com/blog/super-awesome-sylvia/2013/04/27/my-crazy-dc-adventure <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><b>WHite HoUse SCience FaiR?</b> <i>WHaaa?</i> This month has been crazy!! Robogames 2013, TWO Science Fairs, and an interview with Bill Nye and Levar Burton... in the same week?! <i><b>HOLY MOLY!!!</b></i></p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/2013-04-21%2011.00.07.jpg" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-r" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_small/public/post-images/Dadmin/2013-04-21%2011.00.07.jpg?itok=WFLr2STV" width="200" height="200" alt="Sylvia posing with her custom made white cardboard box that reads &quot;Super-Awesome Sylvia - WATERCOLORBOT - Evil Mad Scientist&quot;" title="It&#039;s done!! Windell at EMSL helped with the logo and design, and the box fit EVERYTHING we needed, it was AWESOME! Loved the handle." /></a>Just a few weeks ago, I got a call from the White House staff, and they invited me to go to their 3rd ever science fair! Last year, Joey Hudy got chosen to go for making awesome kits, <i>and</i> got to show off his big orange marshmallow cannon. This year, MAKE magazine and Cognizant nominated me to come! The most insane part was that I only got one week warning, my school 6th grade science fair was on the same day as the white house one, <b><em>and</em></b> we’d have to leave on the last day of <a href="http://robogames.net">Robogames</a>!!! <strong><em>OH NOEsS!!</em></strong></p> <p>Luckily my dad helped organize and put together a fundraiser on <a href="http://www.gofundme.com/sylvia-science-fair">gofundme</a>, and we raised the full goal amount in less than a day thanks to all the awesome people who donated and helped get the word out! WOO hoo!</p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_9266.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-l" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_small/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_9266.JPG?itok=z-joNLJ3" width="200" height="200" alt="Sylvia posing in her bicycle blouse at her hotel, ready to leave to the White House." title="Ready to go to the White House! Mom helped me curl my hair, and I got some new patches on my lab coat," /></a> On the Thursday before the Science Fair, I left to San Mateo to compete in Robogames 2013 with my WaterColorBot paint pen plotter (fill wrap-up post coming later). After an exciting couple days at Robogames (and winning a silver medal!), I boarded a plane to Washington DC, with my robot and project board all wrapped up in my awesome custom made carrying box. I was <strong><em>SOOOO</em></strong> excited!!</p> <p>We got to our hotel at 2am, slept ‘till 6am, got dressed all fancy, then left for the White House! (Not much sleep. :P)</p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_9274.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-r" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_small/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_9274.JPG?itok=Hh-5vUp1" width="200" height="200" alt="Sylvia standing behind her science fair table at the White House, ready to display the WaterColorBot." title="At the White House, and I&#039;m ready! The letters above the board were painted with the bot, as were the other examples too." /></a>When we got there, I was checked by security and led to the room where I was supposed to set up in. I didn’t have much stuff to assemble, so I had a ton of time to figure out exactly how I would do my demo, and what the heck just happened. Craziness!!</p> <p>After about an hour, some people started to come by and I showed off my WaterColorBot. My demo worked with a Raspberry Pi as the computer, and connected to the iPad with a WIFI adapter that my dad help me make into an access point. After all of the other kids set up and looked around, we went outside and had some lunch and talked with lots of important people. After lunch settled down, I got interviewed by Levar Burton and Bill Nye!! Oh My Gosh!</p> <iframe style="margin: 0 auto; display: block;" width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GqSL4ciJqvg#t=1292s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><p> At 12:30, the science fair officially opened to the rest of the staff and VIP’s that got invited. I talked to a BUNCH of cool people and really had some fun talking with them all about how the bot works, how I came up with the design, and how I think it'll be perfect for girls my age to get into engineering with once we make it into a kit. I also talked lots and lots about other things I liked doing, plus all about my show.</p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_9312.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_9312.JPG?itok=y26sSLar" alt="Sylvia showing Nate Ball, host of PBS Kids Design Squad, and a group of onlookers how her WaterColorBot works" title="Showing Nate from PBS Kids Design Squad and all the cool VIPs how it works, and that it&#039;s cool!" /></a></p> <p>I hadn't had much sleep, but even though I'd been standing and talking for hours, I was totally pumped. It's hard to describe, but getting up there and talking about something awesome that you know pretty well, that people really want to hear, and have interesting questions about, is a lot of fun, and you wouldn't think so. But it is.... and I knew I had to hold out for the POTUS!</p> <iframe style="margin: 0 auto; display: block;" width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2HfgGDOZPCQ#t=1910s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><p> When it was time for the president to come in, all the regular people were moved into the entry hall. He then came in, said hello and started talking to the first booth. After a few teams/groups had talked with the president, I was next! He walked up, said hello and shook my hand. We talked, and then he held up my watercolorbot painted picture of the white house logo the press, and lots of camera shutters went off. He then talked with me a bit and drew something on the iPad for the bot to draw, “GO STEM!”. At the end he shook my hand again!! I was thrilled!</p> <div style="width: 105%; margin: 0 auto 0 0; overflow: hidden;"><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/24sylvia-span-articlelarge.jpg" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-l" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_small/public/post-images/Dadmin/24sylvia-span-articlelarge.jpg?itok=Azk_pCUx" width="200" height="200" alt="Sylvia standing behind her science fair table and her WaterColorBot while President Barack Obama displays the White House logo drawn by the bot." title="WaterColorBot: US President Approved!" /></a><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_9338.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-l" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_small/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_9338.JPG?itok=CXFkljvC" width="200" height="200" alt="Sylvia holding the finished painting that the president made with the iPad WaterColorBot demo." title="And here it is! What the president actually wrote on the iPad. It didn&#039;t come out perfectly because I ran out of water, but it&#039;s still awesome!!" /></a><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_9339.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-l" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_small/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_9339.JPG?itok=sIe-Lia6" width="200" height="200" alt="The iPad showing what President Barack Obama drew for the WaterColorBot to paint." title="This is it! The actual iPad drawing the president made." /></a><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/800_6rvxe0fhmiwj3htdsxx6euujnyy7toih.jpg" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-l" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_small/public/post-images/Dadmin/800_6rvxe0fhmiwj3htdsxx6euujnyy7toih.jpg?itok=e-kju0hd" width="200" height="200" alt="Sylvia instructs President Barack Obama as he draws the words &quot;GO STEM!&quot; on the iPad for the WaterColorBot to draw." title="Here&#039;s the president actually giving the iPad app a try! Thanks RobotGrrl!! " /></a></div> <p>Meeting the president was so incredible and exciting! I had a TON of fun in Washington DC and I really hope to go there again. Even though I got to meet the president, I’m still just regular old me, and I think any kid my age could get to be where I was, if they just don’t give up and keep going at their crazy ideas. Even if nothing new happens because of my trip, I’ll be sure and keep my friends at the White House forever.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"> <h3 class="field-label">Tags&nbsp;</h3> <span class="field-items"> <a href="/tags/white-house" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">White House</a>, <a href="/tags/science-fair" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Science Fair</a>, <a href="/tags/watercolorbot" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">WaterColorBot</a>, <a href="/tags/paint" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">paint</a>, <a href="/tags/away" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">away</a>, <a href="/tags/washington-dc" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Washington DC</a>, <a href="/tags/barack-obama" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Barack Obama</a>, <a href="/tags/bill-nye" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Bill Nye</a>, <a href="/tags/levar-burton" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">LeVar Burton</a>, <a href="/tags/interview" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">interview</a>, <a href="/tags/joey-hudy" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Joey Hudy</a>, <a href="/tags/science" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">science</a> </span> </div> Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:44:59 +0000 Super-Awesome Sylvia 89 at http://sylviashow.com http://sylviashow.com/blog/super-awesome-sylvia/2013/04/27/my-crazy-dc-adventure#comments We're at Maker Faire Kansas City 2012! http://sylviashow.com/blog/super-awesome-sylvia/2012/06/23/were-maker-faire-kansas-city-2012 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Hey everyone! Even though we didn't finish our Maker Faire Bay area posts yet, here we are at another one, <a href="http://www.makerfairekc.com/">Maker Faire Kansas City</a>!</p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_0713_0.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_0713_0.JPG?itok=Dh60LB6t" alt="" title="KC Maker Faire!" /></a></p> <div style="overflow:hidden; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_0805.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-l" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_small/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_0805.JPG?itok=kJVqIIl9" width="200" height="200" alt="" title="My trinket box. I designed it, the flower is a Frangipanni" /></a>Last year we didn't have nearly enough time to explore, so we this year we stayed for a whole week! We went to the absolutely incredible <a href="http://mcckc.edu/fablab">MCC FabLab</a> and made wooden trinket boxes on their laser cutter, <a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_0845.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-r" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_small/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_0845.JPG?itok=YglEL3KV" width="200" height="200" alt="" title="Over at the HMS Beagle science store, all the little bottles are essential oils, they smell so much!! Good, bad, strong &amp; crazy!" /></a> then off to the <a href="http://hms-beagle.com/">HMS Beagle Science Store</a> for the <a href="http://makekc.org/">MakeKC</a> meetup, pizza and looking at <strong>all</strong> their amazing stuff.</div> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_0912.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_0912.JPG?itok=cVdrIVDu" alt="" title="Here I am with some day camp girls, showing them how to solder" /></a></p> <p>Then I got to teach some <a href="http://www.sciencecity.com/">Science City</a> Day Camp kids all about squishy circuits, and how to solder for the very first time!! They all did really great, learened a lot, and left with their own blinky Maker Faire robot pins they made all by themselves!</p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_1318.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_1318.JPG?itok=AG8C9UXf" alt="" title="Me, Joey and my sister Talulah playing Squishy Space Race at the Hammerspace" /></a></p> <p>Then we met up with our maker buddy <a href="http://lwjm.us">Joey Hudy</a> and did a bunch of other stuff, eventually getting to go to the absolutely amazing <a href="http://www.hammerspacehobby.com/">Hammerspace</a>!!! Sooo cool!</p> <p>A LOT happened so far, with even more still to come! Techninja will help write it all down in a blog post soon. See you out there!</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"> <h3 class="field-label">Tags&nbsp;</h3> <span class="field-items"> <a href="/tags/maker-faire" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Maker Faire</a>, <a href="/tags/maker-faire-kc" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Maker Faire KC</a>, <a href="/tags/away" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">away</a>, <a href="/tags/fun" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">fun</a>, <a href="/tags/joey-hudy" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Joey Hudy</a>, <a href="/tags/education" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">education</a>, <a href="/tags/science-city" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Science City</a>, <a href="/tags/hammerspace" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Hammerspace</a>, <a href="/tags/science" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">science</a>, <a href="/tags/fablab" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">FabLab</a>, <a href="/tags/kc" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">KC</a> </span> </div> Sun, 24 Jun 2012 02:51:46 +0000 Super-Awesome Sylvia 76 at http://sylviashow.com http://sylviashow.com/blog/super-awesome-sylvia/2012/06/23/were-maker-faire-kansas-city-2012#comments