An Over Coffee® Valentine special
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Need a Valentine for someone special? And you’d like it to be much more imaginative than the standard flowers, candy and/or a card?
Technologist, maker and educator Mitchell Malpartida has some great ideas.
As a regular contributor to the Make: community and the Founder of Masterful Creations STEAM Academy, Mitch teaches workshops on science, technology, engineering, art and math. At the core of his lessons is a sense of fun and creativity, as he visits schools and offers online maker workshops and sessions in his local community.
And he’s also having a lot of fun teaching maker skills to his own children. Not to mention learning with them, as they come up with new ideas! (You’ll find a number of his projects on his YouTube channel.)
During our 2022 interview on Valentine’s Day-related maker projects, Mitch offered a creative maker’s approach to some of the Valentine standards.
Happy Valentine’s Day to you and all your Valentines!
On this edition of Over Coffee® we cover:
- Mitch’s ideas for Valentine maker projects, based on classic Valentine traditions;
- His experiences as a maker, learning and exploring with his own children;
- How to overcome the “intimidation factor” with technology and new hands-on projects;
- A new resource and a new concept with which Mitchell is working, that are inspiring him to create new maker projects;
- The story behind a project that took Mitchell out of his comfort zone, as a maker;
- Where he’d like to expand his skills and work more, in the future.