Sylvia's Super-Awesome Maker Show! - Switzerland http://sylviashow.com/tags/switzerland en I'm not dead! Just busy. Also: MAKER FAIRE! http://sylviashow.com/blog/super-awesome-sylvia/2014/05/15/im-not-dead-just-busy-also-maker-faire <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><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">HI GUYS!!! So, How have you been doing? Good, good. Oh really? Awesome!</span></p> <p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">Well, </span>I <span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">have been doing pretty well, </span><em>but</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> I’ve been hecka busy. Sorry even though I keep promising new episodes it just doesn’t happen. School has been torture, I started Karate, and Girl Scouts has been fun but selling cookies is a chore, and I’ve also been working on </span><em>secret </em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">projects (hee hee hee) and traveling the world for STEM and showing the WaterColorBot.</span></p> <p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">It’s been crazy. Everything is crazy. <em>You’re crazy.</em> <em><strong>I’m crazy!</strong></em> No, just kidding... let’s get on with the blog post!</span></p> <p><strong>GUESS WHAT</strong><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">: January 2014 was the first WaterColorBot anniversary! 1 full year of awesome progress and watercolor painting awesomeness. Yay! I wanted to make a birthday cake for it to paint.. but then got busy again. Geeez! February and March were boring catching up with school and stuff, but also some planning for April!</span></p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/genevapanel.jpeg" 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/genevapanel.jpeg?itok=8nlHqpCV" alt="Sylvia and other panelists on the Girls in ICT Panel at the ITU for the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on April 15th, 2014" title="My very first UN panel! I wasn&#039;t the least bit nervous!... ok maybe a little. So honored for the chance to do it!!" /></a></p> <p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">I was invited to go to Geneva, Switzerland to talk at the UN for International Girls in ICT day! </span><em>The UN</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> </span><em>peoplez!!</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> It was so cool, and I got to talk about ICT (Information and Communications Technology) and STEM and why I think it’s really awesome for girls to get into it and work it. Also talk had fun and made and made an awesome mobile app and showed off the WaterColorBot (which everyone really liked)! I’ll have to do a full post on that one day soon. </span>Here's a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E0dFzTg6A&amp;list=PLDDD2E4F143C930A4">quick video they shot</a> to give you an idea of what it was like.</p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/2014-04-15%2008.58.06.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/2014-04-15%2008.58.06.jpg?itok=vX1D-FxR" alt="Sylvia talking about her WaterColorBot at the ITU/United Nations in Geneva Switzerland" title="I had an interpreter to speak French for me, it was crazy!" /></a></p> <p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">So yep! That was fun. Oh! And hey, I’m making this awesome- </span><em>wait!</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> It’s secret!!! I almost told you what my super secret project is. </span><em>Phew!</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> If I did, you would know all about-</span><strong>OOP!</strong><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> I almost told you again! Well, I guess I could </span><em>just</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> say that we will be announcing something incredibly super awesome on Saturday at Maker Faire Bay Area 2014! And, soon after we will blog about it and how its about- </span><strong>ARG</strong><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">. Anyways...</span></p> <p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">This summer, I <em>really</em> want to take charge and </span><em>own</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> my time. Here’s my goal list for the next four months:</span></p> <ul><li><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">Make 5 episodes or more, changing to format of the episodes a bit: More humor, easier editing! :D</span></li> <li><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">Try and build more stuff and explore new fun ways to make the shows.</span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">I want to make at least 100 different projects </span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">Aluminum casting my own sword with lost PLA casting from 3D printed thing!</span></li> <li><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">Begged parents for Ukulele, earned money from WaterColorBot, got it, learning right now! YAY!</span></li> <li><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">Mostly built an electric Go Kart for my science faire project, but couldn’t find the right parts in time, argh! I want to finish that puppy NOW! (Well, not now, but as soon as possible. ;) )</span></li> </ul><p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">But before all that...</span> <span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"><em><strong>Come see us at Maker Faire!</strong></em></span></p> <p><img alt="logo2.jpg" src="/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/logo2.jpg" style="display:block; height:337px; margin:0px auto; width:337px" /></p> <p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">We don’t have a booth this year (I need my time to go see the faire!), but I will be doing fun demo stuff with the WaterColorBot and an Arduino at the Make live stage in the Expo hall on Saturday at 11:30 with </span><em>the</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> special announcement at the end. On </span><strong>Sunday</strong><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> at the education stage at 11:00am, we will be talking in detail about </span><em>the announcement</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">, and you can ask questions and stuff then too! Also I’ll be hanging around the Atmel Truck both days and building simple Arduino projects with kids for a bit. Hope to see ya at Maker Faire!! :D </span></p> <p><em><strong><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">EDIT:</span></strong></em> Oh! Almost forgot, my latest fun project with my dad and <a href="http://twitter.com/makerblock">@MakerBlock</a> is <a href="http://makerbingo.com">MakerBingo</a>! Print your own bingo card for Maker Faires everywhere! Share it with your friends, give em to family! Go out and have fun!!</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/geneva" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Geneva</a>, <a href="/tags/switzerland" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Switzerland</a>, <a href="/tags/united-nations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">United Nations</a>, <a href="/tags/girl-scouts" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Girl Scouts</a>, <a href="/tags/fun" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">fun</a>, <a href="/tags/summer" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">summer</a>, <a href="/tags/away" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">away</a>, <a href="/tags/go-kart" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">go kart</a>, <a href="/tags/maker-faire" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Maker Faire</a>, <a href="/tags/san-mateo" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">San Mateo</a>, <a href="/tags/special-announcement" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">special announcement</a>, <a href="/tags/secret" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">secret</a>, <a href="/tags/atmel" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Atmel</a>, <a href="/tags/arduino" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Arduino</a> </span> </div> Thu, 15 May 2014 18:19:17 +0000 Super-Awesome Sylvia 103 at http://sylviashow.com http://sylviashow.com/blog/super-awesome-sylvia/2014/05/15/im-not-dead-just-busy-also-maker-faire#comments