The Lab Holiday Sessions - September 2011

Today we held another holiday session with around 17 particpants(a full house).

A couple of older kids left as one in particular wasn't interested, but everybody else seemed to have a good time. At one stage 11 of the kids were on a shared minecraft server, so that was the hit of the day. It was very interesting meeting some of the young people and talking about their interests.

An overview of the room, with the IP address for the minecraft server as well as a message (NO COMPLAINTS, Expect Destruction) which was prompted by some issues in prior sessions.

An angry bird playing minecraft.



An overview of the room, which is on the 16th floor with great views of Melbourne.


This young man wasn't interested in games, just design, and tried zbrush, coming up with some incredible designs by himself, as our 3d designer wasn't there today. This is perhaps an example of what simply giving kids access can achieve - he taught himself a lot through trial and error, not really wishing to do tutorials.


Some of his creations - he ended up making videos of his creations which I unfortunately left behind but hope to recover shortly;