Hello from Brazil!
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Hello from Brazil Dear Maker for Shenzhen staff I'm getting
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and I'm Chief Innovation officer at Newcastle.
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We are a private educational group that holds two chains
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of schools in brasilia, the capital of brazil, one of
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them being out of the school which has an amazing
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Maker program that has had the chance to present projects
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Maker for Atlanta Maker for Growth.
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We have also been invited to meet with Vienna but
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that was cancelled due to the pandemic.
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We are going to make a fair Orlando in november
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and we hope to be part of making for change
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in uh it's very important for us to be make
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repairs because those are the moments in which we learn
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a lot from this amazing community of makers that go
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to these events and we can modify all this learning
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to our learning community in Brazil and we also have
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the chance to share in the contributions to this amazing
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movement around the world.
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We haven't had a chance to integrate with nature from
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Asia yet in Vietnam are special in Shenzhen which is
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a city known for its grown for its technology and
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also concerned with sustainability.
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Um in this sense we would like to present a
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session that's aimed at parents and educators and how to
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develop a sustainable mindset in young Children in association with
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the negative centered approach.
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Our main theoretical framework is the one from projects here
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from Harvard in which we are focused on helping students
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develop sensitivity to design.
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So we help Children learn to look closely at artifacts.
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It's more than their complexity and find opportunities to change
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them this way, they will understand that the world around
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us is made by artifacts, is made by objects that
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were made by someone.
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And since someone made them, but we can also modify
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them, make them better, make them more beautiful, more sustainable
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and more relevant.
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And we do that in association with sustainability, since resources
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are not unlimited, it's fundamental that every young maker knows
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that we are responsible for our designs for the fact
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they have in this world and we are responsible for
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the materials and resources be used.
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So whenever we work with electronics for innocence, we have
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our families donate broken toys so students can go there
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and dissect them electronically and learn about how they work
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in their hands on them.
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And then the parts we can extract from those tours
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earlier there used to make robots and other electronics artifacts.
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Whenever we're working with manufacturing techniques such as freedom mama
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lee we are mindful without the kind of film it
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we use if it's biodegradable or not.
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And we discuss after their students, we also help them
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integrate different techniques such as three D modeling and laser
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cutting or three D modeling and fodder cutting like with
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this grounded here in which they created a toy and
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open and the toy out of recycled cardboard and three
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D. Printed parts.
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So this way they had a sustainable toy that was
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made by them, they found empowered and it was responsible
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from a sustainability perspective.
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We also tried our maker space into a place of
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empathy. Uh here we have received students from the local
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university so they could show student spots since we noticed
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kids were very afraid of them and whenever you're afraid
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of something that's going to kill it when it comes
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to uh small animals, creepy crawlers.
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So this way students became fascinated about the box and
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develop amazing maker projects based on them, one of them
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being this giant spider right here that functions on hydraulic
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circuits and they also learn about hydraulic circuits by observing
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other groups, developing projects related to the human body.
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So this way they empathize with the world around them.
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They also learned that they can learn from other Children
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and they put into practice amazing maker skills that reflect
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this mindset.
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Um We also choose our manufacturing techniques uh in the
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perspective of everything is possible.
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Yes, we can use spray painting, you can use laser
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cutting as long as this is the best way to
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get through project.
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Uh if there isn't any other more sustainable alternative from
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what we're kind, we're trying to do this.
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Send students experiment a lot with manufacturing techniques here to
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make sure we choose the most sustainable inappropriate one for
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each project.
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And also we have this concern of giving back so
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many of our projects are targeted and not only environmental
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but social causes.
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So our makers realise they have agency, they have power
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and they are becoming makers so they can make a
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difference. Um Our session will be presented in a show
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and tell approach which really suits maker faire.
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So already these to do something similar to what we
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could do uh in a booth face to face, we
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will show artifacts, will show projects, videos and pictures to
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make the whole experience very hands on.
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And also ask many questions.
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Sitting on.
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Is to make it as interactive as possible.
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Because that's what makes Maker faire.
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It's show and tell moment in which we get to
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share in which we get to make meaningful connections with
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other makers and people who are interested uh in developed
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this identity themselves.
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So uh thank you so much for learning about our
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project. We hope from hearing from you guys soon.
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Uh and we're also available via email.
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If you have any other questions.
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Thank you so much.