• Magazines and newspapers that can be cut up.
• Art supplies: paste, markers, colored paper, glitter, etc.
• (Optional) Legos, Tinker Toys, blocks of any kind, beads and string -- anything that can be used to build or make something.

Who Designs What?

1. Encourage participants to find and/or identfy "designed" objects around their environment. Maintain a running list of what they find. Once their are several object listed, ask participants to name an object's designer if they can. For example, you might want to start the list off with "the building they're in" as a designed object and an architect as the object's designer.

   I'm a Designer, You're a Designer
   

2. Make the different materials available in different parts of the room. Let participants choose among them and move from one to another as much as is logistically possible during the workshop.
3. Invite participants to draw and create, using the materials you've made available to design with. Projects you might suggest that represent a number of different design approaches and that encourage using sketching as a tool include:
   • Create a poster for this workshop that emphasizes the theme of technology.
   • Use the magazines and newspapers to make a collage of designed objects that have a theme--e.g., same thing, different design; things I think are beautiful; shoes.
   • Draw a picture or make a collage that shows your version of an ideal / perfect world.
   • Build something out of the blocks--my dream house, the city of tomorrow, a fantastical machine, an abstract portrait of me/my best friend--then make a drawing of what you've built.
   • Design jewelry using the beads and string. Draw a picture of your jewelry when you've finished.

Tips & Tricks-- to learn about how to name the things that they create in Imagination Place! in KAHooTZ.

Wacky World of Whatchamacallits'

• Wacky Puzzles and try out Puzzle 2: Design Professions. When they have created a similar Xpression, have them name their Xpression and if there's time -- publish it to KAHooTZ.
• Quests & Queries and create an Xpression based on an exploration of technology. Have them name their Xpression and if there's time -- publish it to KAHooTZ.

Word Wave's:

• Design Journal and develop Journal Idea 1 which asks that they think of a machine that they need and then visualize their idea in an Xpression.
• Buzz and create an Xpression based on one of its Story Starters.

Design Xchangeand create an Xpression of designers and the things they design.

• About Xpressions -- Information about the basic building blocks of KAHooTZ.
  
• About Create -- Find out more about creating backgrounds, draw, stamps, sound and text -- elements that are used to create Xpressions.
  
• Xpressions: How do I -- Create -- Information on starting, testing and changing Xpressions.
  
• Saving my Xpression (in "How do I Create) Learn how to save Xpressions you have created.
  
• Publish an Icon Information about making an icon available to the KAHooTZ world.
  
• About Mail Find out basic information about mail in KAHooTZ.
  
• How Do I Mail? Learn what you need to know to use mail in KAHooTZ.
  

Note: Be sure that each participant has an icon that has been published to KAHooTZ.

During this workshop, participants use their design notebooks as they create sketches,and develop ideas for their design project. Help participants think about the kinds of ideas that they could develop. Have them sketch these ideas as they go along. Once they get the hang of representing their ideas, encourage them to realize one in the form of a project.

• Before they can freely exercise their design imaginations, girls need to think of themselves as designers and to believe that what they design is of value. They need to think of themselves as the makers and creators of technologies, not merely as users and consumers of them. The activities in this session are intended to both validate girls' ideas about what is interesting/worthwhile to design, and to help start from girls' perceptions of themselves vis-a-vis technological design, encouraging them to move from passive to active.
• Be alert to the possibility that some participants might resist the idea of "drawing" and/or "sketching." They may protest that they can't draw, and therefore can't do the assignment. It is important to acknowledge their fears but at the same time stress how all designers need to sketch out and think about their ideas on paper or on the computer (however scrawled). Reassure participants that tools within Imagination Place!, allow them to construct their inventions from parts that already exist, using them as they are or modifying them as need, requiring little or no drawing at all.
• Ask participants to make a list of or sketch the four or five inventions that they think are most important for the world today.

• Eyewitness Books: Invention
• Mistakes That Worked