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On September 27 we had a conference by a maker who explained the importance

maker space and how to be a maker. Ana told us that being a maker is not just

inventing and having a work area but copying and sharing ideas to build, create

and reuse in a collaborative way adopting the “maker culture”, because the

technology we do, it is not done alone, but in teams.

The activity that we participated in teams of five for which they gave

us a marshmallow, a string, ribbon and spaghetti sticks. The

challenge was to make the highest stable column using all the

materials in a time of 20 minutes and the highest tower

would be the winner.

The activity was recreational as each of the

members exchanged opinions and worked as a

team taking the challenge, each team used

different bases, and others copied

structures from others to then modify

and put different ideas. It was very

fun overall.

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innovating our education model

M A K E R S

EMILIO AVILES