Co.Lab self-serve workshops have a unified purpose: to teach students how to collaborate to solve problems, and to share their knowledge with others as contributions. Empowering teachers and parents by letting them host workshops of their own also furthers Red Hat’s mission to be the catalyst in communities of customers, contributors, and partners creating better technology the open source way.
Creating your own Co.Lab workshop is a unique way to teach kids the immense power of working together to solve a problem using open source hardware—and it doesn’t take much planning on your part. With our do-it-yourself kits and a set of guidelines, you can quickly build an interactive event that empowers students to learn, create, and share their knowledge with others.
Get started with a Co.Lab kitHosting a workshop is simple. With each kit, you’ll get an overview of the project, set of instructions, various checklists, and a how-to video with experiments to guide you through it yourself. Then, once you’ve built and tested it, you can lead others through the process. Just use this handy checklist to get started.
In fact, Co.Lab started with a multi-day event in 2017 in Boston, where participants built and programmed Raspberry Pi digital cameras—and then took those cameras around the city to capture images that represented lines of a poem. We traveled across the globe from New York to Colorado, Minneapolis to Madrid, and London to Buenos Aires—hosting workshops to show students the amazing things that can happen when people work together to solve problems.
Astoria, NY
Bogota, Colombia
Boston, MA
Boulder, CO
Brno, Czech Republic
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Chicago, IL
Dubai, UAE
Germany
Houston, TX
Kadapa, India
London, UK
Milwaukee, WI
Minneapolis, MN
New York, NY
Raleigh, NC
Santiago, Chile
Seattle, WA
Seoul, Korea
Spain
Washington, DC
Co.Lab has reached students across the globe, demonstrating the power of collaboration through open source. Here’s a sampling of past workshops.
Students throughout the U.S. built a light-up greeting card using copper tape, LEDs, and a coin cell battery during the annual day of service, and received an extra LED card to share what they learned with others.
Female students from the I.E.S. Adolfo Suárez public school programmed and built a robotic vehicle using collaboration and open technology.
The in-person workshop let Franklin Middle School students build paper circuitry and special effects with copper tape and microcontrollers to bring a story by author Lauren Sabel to life using light, sound, motion, and art.
See photos from past workshopsContact us at colab@redhat.com.
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