Open Agriculture/Food Computers
- MA CVTE Frameworks: Horticulture; Electronics
- Content: Nutrition; Growth requirements of plants; hydroponics and aquaponics; Arduino programming; agricultural sensors; 3D Design and Fabrication; Chemical testing; control of lights, power, and pumps; App development for Internet of Things
- Project: Students will design, build, and test an indoor gardening system monitored through a smartphone app.
MIT Media Lab Open Agriculture Projects
http://openag.media.mit.edu/
Open Agriculture Forum
http://forum.openag.media.mit.edu/
Open Agriculture Wiki Page
https://wiki.openag.media.mit.edu/
Build a Food Computer Community Forum
https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/build-a-food-computer/
Open Agriculture GitHub
https://github.com/openaginitiative
Food Computers in the Classroom Wiki
http://forum.openag.media.mit.edu/t/calling-all-educators-whos-using-food-computers-in-schools/515
Education Initiative:
http://openag.media.mit.edu/education/
To get this project up and running, we have recruited the world’s most curious, innovative, and enthusiastic scientists out there – kids. Today’s students have grown up in a world of rapidly evolving technology and they are natural born experimenters, programmers, and tinkerers. By introducing our Food Computers into several diverse schools local to the Boston area, we hope to inspire the next generation to become the high-tech farmers of the future.
Students are encouraged to adjust, adapt, and hack their Food Computers in order to perform experiments that will not only generate food, but also data and climate recipes.
We want kids and everyone else to learn more about where their food comes from, how it’s grown, and how they can get more involved with the food they eat. From botany, to engineering, and programming to nutrition, there is so much we can learn from the food computer and from each other about how we can improve the future of food. OpenAg is taking root, and together we can make it grow.
Ideo Co Lab
http://foodfuturecolab.ideo.com/
The Food + Future coLAB is a collaboration between Target + IDEO + the MIT Media Lab, where we’re pushing the edges of technology, business, and design to create new, impactful ventures to do just that.
Ideo Co-Lab Polybot
http://ideocolab.com/prototypes/poly
From: Hildreth England <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: MIT/Public School Collaboration
Date: May 15, 2017 at 5:44:49 PM EDT
To: David Birnbach <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Hildreth England <[email protected]>, Paula Cerqueira <[email protected]>, Sarah Laskin <[email protected]>
STEAM Studios sounds like a fantastic opportunity, and we can hop on a call to see how OpenAg at the Media Lab (looping in Paula, who's coordinating OpenAG EDU initiatives) and The Open Agriculture Foundation (Sarah Laskin is our ED, CC'd) might help. Sorry we couldn't touch base before end of today, but glad you reached out.
Since OpenAg is an open source project - there's tons of resources that can be included in Greater Lawrence's programming planning docs that you're welcome to list. By all means - please include the OpenAg media lab website, our community forum, GitHub, and Wiki as resources for your project.
As we speak, we're in the midst of a beta-test of our latest PFC in schools (one of which is Essex Technical HS in Middleton), and we advise the participating schools primarily through our community forum: http://forum.openag.media.mit.edu/t/2017-spring-semester-food-computing-in-education-beta-test/1450
There's also an entire thread dedicated to connecting educators who are implementing PFCs in their classrooms here: http://forum.openag.media.mit.edu/t/calling-all-educators-whos-using-food-computers-in-schools/515
There may also be some potential future opportunities with the Foundation (whose mission is getting PFCs in social impact sectors - starting with schools), so would love to keep Sarah in the loop.
Cheers and thanks for reaching out. looking forward to hearing more about STEAM Studios.
Subject: Re: MIT/Public School Collaboration
Date: May 15, 2017 at 5:44:49 PM EDT
To: David Birnbach <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Hildreth England <[email protected]>, Paula Cerqueira <[email protected]>, Sarah Laskin <[email protected]>
STEAM Studios sounds like a fantastic opportunity, and we can hop on a call to see how OpenAg at the Media Lab (looping in Paula, who's coordinating OpenAG EDU initiatives) and The Open Agriculture Foundation (Sarah Laskin is our ED, CC'd) might help. Sorry we couldn't touch base before end of today, but glad you reached out.
Since OpenAg is an open source project - there's tons of resources that can be included in Greater Lawrence's programming planning docs that you're welcome to list. By all means - please include the OpenAg media lab website, our community forum, GitHub, and Wiki as resources for your project.
As we speak, we're in the midst of a beta-test of our latest PFC in schools (one of which is Essex Technical HS in Middleton), and we advise the participating schools primarily through our community forum: http://forum.openag.media.mit.edu/t/2017-spring-semester-food-computing-in-education-beta-test/1450
There's also an entire thread dedicated to connecting educators who are implementing PFCs in their classrooms here: http://forum.openag.media.mit.edu/t/calling-all-educators-whos-using-food-computers-in-schools/515
There may also be some potential future opportunities with the Foundation (whose mission is getting PFCs in social impact sectors - starting with schools), so would love to keep Sarah in the loop.
Cheers and thanks for reaching out. looking forward to hearing more about STEAM Studios.