High-tech Low-cost Making Project Launches Website

For the past two years, Molly Shea has worked with a group of after-school educators, artists, computer scientists, and researchers to design new digital-making activities for young children that are approachable, of interest, and expand their understanding of digital-making practices.

These efforts were supported by a grant from the NSF and have led to the or HiLo.

Molly started this work while at the University of Colorado and has continued to refine it at UW. There are bilingual (Spanish/English) videos for children K-8 to try at home and after-school educator guides to support equity in computational thinking practice. Partners in this effort include the City of Watsonville, California; the University of Colorado; Alicia Sanchez Elementary School; the Exploratorium (San Francisco, California); Walter Kitundu (artist, educator and 2008 MacArthur Fellow); and the NSF. You can check out the website