Coding and Creativity Today in Maker Spaces

Our students spent much of their day in BSD Academy working on their wearable technology projects.    Coding has been completed and they are assembling the lighting by soldering wires for each of their projects.  We held a video conference from the BSD Hong Kong office and spoke with our favorite teachers in the BSD Bryn Mawr office.

 We also watched workmen on the side of a building near ours who were doing work on the outside and 23 stories off the ground from a structure made entirely of bamboo.

Lunch took place at a vegetarian restaurant in the neighborhood of BSD.  Our students met Ms. Peggy, the owner/chef and they learned from her about how she started her business, designed the menu, sourced the food and materials for the meals, and marketed the business to her customers.  She described how she made connections with many famous chefs in the area and invited them to come and cook in her restaurant to build excitement for her plan and to make connections with others of similar interests.  Once she had established a real cynergy around her vegetarian restaurant concept she has become a sensation in all of Hong Kong.  She has presented as a talented and powerful influence on the restaurant scene in Hong Kong.  The meals our students enjoyed were filled with a wide array of mushrooms, a myriad of vegetables, rice, noodles and tofu.

Following lunch we all gathered together at a new maker space owned by a friend of BSD Academy, Jason Lee.  Laser cutters, 3-D printers, hydroponics, a bitcoin mining rig for etherium, and lots of other cool machines kept us fascinated and passionate for quite a while. Jason showed us his hydroponic chile exhibit.  He even invited us to sample some of the hot little suckers.  Several of us ended up learning that we should think before we jump.  But no one was seriously injured.  Most exciting for me, the undigital person in the group, was the spectacular view of the harbor from the windows of this lab.

Dinner tonight was a tiny Vietnamese restaurant.  Everything was local and fresh.  Coconut water from a young coconut, pho, chicken skewers, wings, cold noodles with prawns or beef.

Tomorrow is shopping.  Lots and lots of shopping.