Stanford Splash 2019 - Stories in Motion

Splash is a program that brings students in grades 8-12 from everywhere to Stanford’s campus for a two-day learning extravaganza. We ran a class titled Stories in Motion: Mechanical Automata and Rapid Prototyping on design automata.

picture group of shape lab members and students that participated in the class holding their final automata prototypes in front of the shape lab building.

splash students visiting Stanford with shape lab students showing their completed automata prototypes

Students working in a table and assembling their designs laser cut in plywood.

Room with a screen slide that reads 'Stories in Motion' and a big table with several prototyping materials scattered around.

shape lab classroom ready