Tuesday Jan 29!

For the students at SHC-

SHC Maker Lab is happening!

I feel very fortunate to have been asked to head up a fantastic new Maker Lab program here at Sacred Heart Cathedral High School.

"Maker Lab - what?" you ask.

Simply put, the Maker Lab is a place where you can come make stuff. Need a poster to promote Valentine sales? Need a hair tie for your hair falling in your face during finals? Looking for a robot to assist you with your home chores? Come to the Maker Lab.

Have you used a pencil and your brain before? Then the Maker Lab is for you. The Maker Lab is a place where art and science live together. It is a place to brainstorm, build, fail, re-build, tinker, dismantle, talk, hang, absorb, energize, work, play, stumble, stand, sit, preach, listen, communicate. A shared space for sharing.

Although our Maker Lab is just getting started we have big plans. Come over and check us out in room #705 (the old chorus room) on the De Paul Campus.

Next Tuesday Jan 29, during white period, come over a make an iPod/iPad holder to take home!

Looking forward to seeing you there!

-Brian McHugh

Own the yellow!

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I was asked by some people at Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep High School in San Francisco to develop a Maker Lab. Enthusiasm from all involved was very high, including myself. One such individual, who took his own time out to spend a couple days to build out the space and recommend that I paint one of the walls a bright color.  Due to the fact that he works in the theater department I interpreted this statement as, "go make a giant freaky mural."

In truth when I hit the wall with the yellow, I felt a little sick. It was just not right. So what did I do- give up? Walk away to come back and paint over it another day? No I put the pedal to the metal... er… roller to the wall and powered up. The yellow didn’t leave, it took over and determined the rest.

 

It’s not intended as a symbol of San Francisco hippie pride or Rastafarian circus punk. If that’s what you see then search your inner self- you might find something cool in that. It was what the Maker Lab is intended to do- make mistakes and then make them work for you. It’s about the process, not the product. When life gives you yellow make lemonade- right?

 

Ready to go.