National Museum of Ireland
For their exhibition, Kitchen Power: Women's Experiences of Rural Electrification, Make Create Innovate were commissioned to design a series of workshops for schools and families as part of the National Museum of Ireland 2019/21 education programme.
Harness the Power
Before The Electrification of Ireland thanks to the Shannon System, small power stations built by local communities supplied some homes and businesses with direct current or ‘DC’. Mobile phones and flat screen tvs still use DC in modern homes today. In this series of hands-on STEAM workshops facilitated by Make Create Innovate, students will gain an understanding of electrical power and develop skills in the conversion of electrical energy to motion, heat and electromagnetism.
Green Design
Today’s home’s are dominated by disposable devices or appliances with built-in-obsolescence. The energy it takes to recycle materials drains our natural resources even more. With the support of Make Create Innovate, take some inspiration from the 1950s kitchen to prototype smart homeware by combining Makey Makey with reusable materials. Come up with your green design solution for everything that endangers our environment from coffee capsule machines to tinfoil baking trays!
Gender in the Kitchen
The 1950s kitchen was marketed to women because they were expected to spend so much time doing domestic work back then. Now those expectations are changing, should our kitchens also change or is it just our attitudes that need an update? Make Create Innovate present a set of creative technology workshops that invite you to look at how products and appliances could be better designed and marketed for a modern world where gender equality is the best recipe.
"We all have ideas and if we put them together they sometimes turn out really good."
Student testimony
We asked our students what they thought of our STEAM workshops and courses
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Overall enjoyment of
students
9/10
Improved confidence
in creativity
9/10
Improved confidence
in technology
26%
Positive change
in gender equality
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