Prototyping Puppets - Teaching Circuitry

Faculty: 
Michael Nitsche
Students: 
Crystal Eng, Ben Sugar

We combine craft and performance art to teach early middle school students basic prototyping skills. We develop informal STEM workshops for puppetry that combine narrative framing, craft-inspired building, and performance. This key approach combines craft, art, and basic hardware prototyping to attract new audiences to STEM. It is a collaboration between Georgia Tech and at the Center for Puppetry Arts funded by the NSF.

Lab: 
Faculty: 
Michael Nitsche
Students: 
Linda Zhang, Jihan Sherman, Colin Stricklin

The Digital World and Image Group focuses on two main areas: virtual spaces and real-time imagery gathered from them. We see game spaces and game media as important forms of self-expression. That is why we work to improve creative access and the expressive range available in interactive digital media such as games. Research is conducted in a combination of theory, analysis, and practical experimentation.