This week, we opened our doors for a very special three-day event: our summer showcase!
The showcase was all about celebrating the work of the young people who have been attending sessions over the last few months to create a whole range of podcasts, designs, prototypes, music and much, much more.
What is the Summer Showcase?
The Summer Showcase is a chance to show off the work created by an incredible group of young people over the last ten weeks. Work from ‘Control Alt Delete‘, ‘Maker City‘, ‘Creative Hub‘ and ‘Sound Wave‘ was on display to the young people from all of the groups.
Clara, the lead facilitator from Maker City, described the showcase as:
The end of term Summer Showcase was really a chance to celebrate the amazing creative work the young people have been doing despite going through a global pandemic! We have been really lucky to work with local young people who have shown immense resilience and ability to adapt and be flexible in order to get back to doing the things they love doing! I was really impressed with all the work we showcased, and it was a really lovely experience seeing the young people engaged and interested in what others had been up to! We were able to invite the funders from Maker City to come and have a look at this year’s projects. The Maker City projects really demonstrated how important it is to young people to be able to amplify their voices on social topics that matter to them! From wooden protest placards to 3D models “Clean up our Beaches boxes” their ideas were inspiring!
Clara Collett, head of maker city
What did the young people make of the showcase?
My project was about pollution and recycling. So I made a bag out of old jeans which contributes to climate change.
Jasmine, 13
I made productions to raise awareness about women’s rights and sexism to empower women.
Lois, 13
What skills have they been developing this term?
Every Monday to Wednesday, a group of young people have been coming into Knowle West Media Centre to engage in a series of activities to help learn and develop new skills.
On Mondays, Control Alt Delete is about tech and coding.
On Tuesdays, Maker City is about digital fabrication and social action.
On Wednesdays, Creative Hub is about engaging creativity and Sound Wave is about music and podcasts.
In Control Alt Delete, numerous programmes were made in a variety of programming languages, games through Scratch and creative builds in Minecraft! At Creative Hub, it was really exciting to be able to display young people’s photography and digital design projects. And in Sound Wave: After School, it was great to be able to share everyone’s podcasts and original songs. We also had the chance for some live performances on the day.
mike moast, head of control alt delete, creative hub and sound wave.
If you would like to check out some of the music created by the young people over the term, check out a link to our Soundcloud.
At the showcase, we were also able to present a project that some of the Maker City participants have been working on – in collaboration with University College London. They have worked with researcher Kylo Thomas to undertake important field work on equitable Maker Spaces for Young People.
Here is one of those participants, Max, made of the project…
Maker City has made it easy to create products to show what is going on in the world.
Lexi, 12
This whole term has been a very unique one. With lockdowns and restrictions changing what looks like a ‘normal after-school session’, we had to adapt both virtually and safely.
So we are incredibly proud of the work they showcased and cannot wait for the next term of activities.
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