Lakewood Computer Clubhouse & Robotics Center

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Girls’ Day starts September 13th

Hi Ladies,

If you’re interested in joining the Lakewood Computer Clubhouse Mondays are  the days you’ll want to be here! I look forward to meeting you and learning about your talents and dreams. Below you will find a weekly summary of things we’ve been working on and sometimes things to come.

September 18th – First day of our 2009-2010 school year Girls’ Day Program

The Girls’ Day Summer Program is on Fridays from noon – 3pm at our Lakewood Pres. Location!

August 21st- The last day of our Girls’ Day Summer Program

August 14th-

August 7th- AVC is down today so we played in photoshop and uploaded our “stickering” to Village accounts. Today there were 8 girls present, and two mentors.  July 31st- We re-shot the Caring Adults video using AVC and started Scripting on Lakewood’s Promise number two- Safe Places. July 24th- We worked on scripts to make a video for the five promises of Lakewood. We completed the scripting and shooting of Lakewood’s promise number one- Caring Adults.  Unfortunately the file was corrupt and we  weren’t able to use it .

July 17th- Making banners for the Lakewood’s Promise website was fun. We made them 980X125 pixels. It was very hot outside and almost everyone was here!!!  July 10th- Today we make our first video for the summer. We set up the camera, turned on the lights, and filmed the balloon action. Girls had a choice between working witha group or working alone. They looked up how-to websites and began creating their balloon masterpieces. Miranda worked the camera and Caisey helped out.  Diana, Celena, and Crystal made up an interview station and filmed other girls while interviewing them about their balloon projects. Other girls  then decided to do this as well.  July 3rd- We had 4 new members today and due to the holiday we had a few members who couldn’t make it. We worked on getting our newest members set up with the Village and getting their pictures taken in front of the green screen to make their press badges. We watched another 30 minute video on Teen movie making. It wasn’t as good as the first video but was interesting enough. June 26th-  Today was the first day of our Girls’ Day summer program- Webmasters and Video Makers. Today we worked on photoshop to create press badges. We watched a reall cool video called Neo’s Ring. It was interesting to learn different techniqes in video production. We set up Village accounts for new members andworked on making our accounts really hip with HTML.

Girls’ Day Program during the 2008-2009 school year was on Mondays 3pm- 6pm.

May 18th & 25th- Rain is on vacation. Sorry to miss the birthday party on May 22nd. Please eat some cake for me! The Clubhouse schedule is changing after Memorial Day so keep an eye on the blog for details. Don’t forget to sign up for Design Squad for some summertime fun! May 11th- Today we made a birthday card for the Lakewood Computer Clubhouses 7th Birthday. We had several girls use themselves to make letters. We took pictures and used Photoshopto make the message. We also super-imposed ourselves onto pictures found on the internet. It was very fun. We made it a point to upload these porjects to the village. May 4th- We made Mother’s day cards using open office. We took pictures from files/internet to add some color and after printing them we pasted the letters to some really nice card stock. We made envelopes out of construction paper. March – April- We are working on puppetry and focusing on: making scripts in Adobe Visual Communicator 3; Using Photoshopto edit pictures for backgrounds; working with puppets; making our own sound files using Anvil Studio and Sony Acid EXpress; andputting it all together. This April we were given some awesome new puppets to work with. This is a multi-media project and will require a little more dedication than previous projects February 2nd  - Girls’ Day Celebration!  January 26th – We will be planning for a huge party and figuring out who we can invite. January 19th – Today the Clubhouse is CLOSED for the MLK Holiday. January 12th – Today we worked on coming up with a logo for Girls’ Day. Heather and Kaila had some pretty cool ideas that we need to expand upon. January 5th 2009- We will be talking about our progress over the past year and plans for 2009. This will include getting to know each other a little more and plans for recruiting new clubhouse members. We need to make flyers and other promotional material to hand out. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! We read from Grimm’s Fairy Tales and used Photoshop and ArtRage to create coolpics to go along with the story. December 29th – Girls Day @ Lakewood Presbyterian Church. Can you believe it’s almost 2009? We made snowflakes on Make-A-Flake. December 22nd – Girls Day @ Lakewood Presbyterian Church. We will be making gingerbread houses out of graham crackers, frosting, and candy. If you have anything you’d like to add to your gingerbread house or to share with the group, please feel free to bring it. December 15th- Today we are going to focus on updaing our Village accounts and saving our best work to the “bestwork” folder (this is where the screen saver runs from). December 8th – It was so fun to make Christmas cards for our loved ones! We used Art Rage and plain ol’ crayons to make them. I really liked Aryelle’s artwork! December 1st – We used Art Rage and made Christmas themed pictures to hang up in the clubhouse. November 24th- We made a claymation video of a couple dancing. Courtney and Kaila were big contributors! Good Job! November 17th – This is a day of posting projects to The Village and adding your artwork to the Clubhouse website! Please read and respond to the posting on the Clubhouse homepage. November 10th- Besides Veteran’s Day on the 11th (Thank you to all our veterans who have faught for our freedom!), our state will be 119 years old. November 3rd – Tomorrow is Election Day! Who will be our next president? November is Aviation History Month, Peanut Butter Lovers Month, and Epilepsy Awareness Month. Today we voted! October 27th- We still have a few more Halloween decorations to put up and some new folders in the girls drive and accounts to create on the village. Also, let’s take some time for flash too! We ended up spending time creating powerpoint presentations about ourselves. How fun was that? October 20th-We will be going over the basics of Flash. This is a really fun program that I hope you all like as much as I do! We will also be putting up some Halloween decorations. Okay, so decorating was so fun we hardly even touched Flash. Thanks for all your help Cat (you are very creative) andto everyone else who chipped in. Great to see a couple ne faces as well- Welcome Brianna and Gabriella (hope I spelled your names right)! October 13th -We took some time to to look for our best work to add to the “my best work” folder on the public drive. Please remember that can be done at anytime. Don’t be shy!!! October 6th- The girls learned the basics of Scratch. It was pretty fun to see what they could come up with. Thanks to Asia, we also had fun on Meez.com. Some of those outfits were pretty cute. Face painting was also pretty great! Thanks for the flower Alesha! October is ComputerLearning Month, Hunger Awareness Month, Month of Dinosaurs, National Popcorn Popping Month, National Crime Prevention Month, and National Clock Month September 29th- We made a couple of really cool”Girl Time” posters to get the word out about our time. I must say that I was really impressed with the way they turned out! GREAT JOB!!!September 22nd – Our first officalday for this school year. We had fun taking photos and messing them up using photoshop. I met a few very talented young ladies and am very excited to see more of their artwork.