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The FashTECH Project was created when two Fine Arts faculty members at Armstrong State University, Professor Rachel Green and Professor Angela Horne, began collaborating to merge medias with technology. Over the course of several years, the two have collaborated on presentations and conference papers while looking for a way to connect with audiences.
Through a funded Community Action Grant from the American Association for University Women (entitled: FashionTECH: Engaging Girls in STEAM through Fashion), and support from Armstrong State University and Telfair Museums, Green and Horne are implementing a 7-week workshop for high school females. Carrying out this STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) program, they will promote interest in technology through active learning in the arts for 20 rising (Title 1) Chatham/Bryan/Effingham county high school female participants and 5 Armstrong female college-aged mentors by delivering a workshop on wearable tech fashions (FashionTECH), The FashTECH Project.
In addition to the high school participants, there will be 5 Armstrong undergrad females who will serve a major role in piloting the workshop sessions. Once the program at Armstrong is complete, the faculty will disseminate the female-centric curriculum to area makerspaces and other programs who wish to utilize it in augmenting technology-based programming to better include females.
The 7-session workshop meets Wednesdays from 4-6pm at Armstrong:
Special Exhibition of Artifacts:
Special Display
Topics we will cover include:
The high school students will work directly with rising undergrad girls as well as Fine Arts faculty from Armstrong.
The sessions will result in the creation of wearable artifacts that will be shown in a special exhibition December 4th, 2015 for participants' family and friends to attend and view the creative work from the groups. In early 2016, the artifacts will also be displayed during the Telfair Museum's PULSE Festival at the Jepson Center.
In summation, this program will:
Through a funded Community Action Grant from the American Association for University Women (entitled: FashionTECH: Engaging Girls in STEAM through Fashion), and support from Armstrong State University and Telfair Museums, Green and Horne are implementing a 7-week workshop for high school females. Carrying out this STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) program, they will promote interest in technology through active learning in the arts for 20 rising (Title 1) Chatham/Bryan/Effingham county high school female participants and 5 Armstrong female college-aged mentors by delivering a workshop on wearable tech fashions (FashionTECH), The FashTECH Project.
In addition to the high school participants, there will be 5 Armstrong undergrad females who will serve a major role in piloting the workshop sessions. Once the program at Armstrong is complete, the faculty will disseminate the female-centric curriculum to area makerspaces and other programs who wish to utilize it in augmenting technology-based programming to better include females.
The 7-session workshop meets Wednesdays from 4-6pm at Armstrong:
- October 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th
- November 4th, 11th, 18th
- Bonus session Wednesday, December 2nd
Special Exhibition of Artifacts:
- Friday, December 4th, 5:30-7pm | Fine Arts Gallery in Fine Arts Hall, Armstrong State University
- View a campus map
Special Display
- January 2016: in conjunction with the Telfair Museum's PULSE Festival 2016 (at The Jepson Center)
Topics we will cover include:
- budgeting and collaborative working
- sewing with conductive thread,
- programming and using LEDS,
- adding sounds and sensors to clothing,
- coding for micro controllers,
- digital manipulation of 3D models via capture of data points with 3D scanning equipment or open source widgets
- creation of 3D models “from scratch” using software
- design and creation of 3-dimensional wearables through execution of FFF/FDM (fused filament fabrication or fused deposition modeling) also known as “3D printing”
The high school students will work directly with rising undergrad girls as well as Fine Arts faculty from Armstrong.
The sessions will result in the creation of wearable artifacts that will be shown in a special exhibition December 4th, 2015 for participants' family and friends to attend and view the creative work from the groups. In early 2016, the artifacts will also be displayed during the Telfair Museum's PULSE Festival at the Jepson Center.
In summation, this program will:
- increase participants’ awareness of, readiness for, and confidence in their ability to pursue STEAM academic areas
- develop leadership skills for female college-aged mentors
- advance the education of young women in the Savannah region (focus on Title 1 high schools)
- provide a technology-based learning (and leading) experience for young women
- generate a female centered STEAM curriculum that will be widely disseminated