Power puppet
Firaz Ahmed Peer, Michael Nitsche, Lauren Schaffer · 2014
In this paper, we describe our approach to designing electronic puppetbuilding workshops for middle to early high school students. Power Puppet uses traditional puppet building materials paper and cloth as the main resources, together with simple circuits elements such as LED's, batteries and magnets. We document our process of designing puppetbuilding workshops that include STEM education criteria. We collaborated with the Center for Puppetry Arts to design these workshops in such a way that part of the making will include basic electronic input and output components. We aim to open this tradition up for larger audiences to enhance hardware CS education in STEM fields.