Week One: Casey Design Club

Wednesday was my first design club session with the Casey Middle School students. When we showed up at the school, it was a little chaotic trying to figure out which computer lab we were going to be using, but in the end it all managed to work out. We played an ice-breaker game at the beginning of the session to get to know the kids, however, they lost focus near the end as we had to wrap things up and move on to the lab. For week one, we had planned on using the Carbon Footprint calculator to help show the students both what their ecological footprint was on the earth, as well as compare that to the rest of the world. I think it was very informative for the students, as most of them asked questions throughout the website program. In addition, I felt that the student's enjoyed being able to see what countries such as Canada and the US were rated as far as an average on their footprints. I look forward to next week's session with hopes that a few more students will be coming to attend.

-Ian