StickTogether Kicks Off Back-to-School with Pixel Portrait Project
NEW YORK — To assist educators and faculty media specialists promote community-building and creativity as college students come again to high school, StickTogether Products is launching its Back-to-School Pixel Portrait Project. This free exercise permits college students to create self-portraits utilizing StickTogether’s free Pixel Art Platform after which show them of their school rooms, round their college, or at dwelling.
“The Back-to-School Pixel Portrait Project provides a great, tech-enabled way for students of any age to showcase their individuality and uniqueness,” mentioned Sylvia Stein, president of StickTogether Products. “Whether using it as a fun way for students to introduce themselves to their class or as a lead-in to a new lesson or unit, this activity will get students engaged and thinking creatively to kick off the school year. Plus, showcasing all the portraits together makes for a stunning display in any classroom or school hallway.”
To full their portraits, college students merely entry the StickTogether Pixel Art Platform, create their portrait utilizing their alternative of 17 completely different colours on a 320-box grid, after which save their creation on to their trainer’s or librarian’s dashboard. From there, the art work may be printed or shared electronically. In addition to the art work, a coded worksheet can also be saved so college students can ‘sticker’ their portraits. Educators can buy Pixel Art Class Packs which embrace a shade key and matching coloured stickers.
“Being a teacher librarian, I love to empower students to use their creativity to express themselves while collaborating and connecting to others,” mentioned Shannon McClintock Miller, district trainer librarian and director of innovation of tutorial know-how at Van Meter School in Iowa. “With the pixel portraits, it is so fun to see how each student’s image is so different and unique. My students love creating these themselves.”
To study extra about StickTogether’s Pixel Art, go to https://letsticktogether.com/pages/pixelart.
About StickTogether Products
StickTogether Products was first offered at MakerFaireNY 2015 with the only objective of participating the maker neighborhood by the facility of creating by fixing easy puzzles collectively. Today, the corporate’s hands-on and digital group actions present a collaborative, community-building exercise for librarians, lecturers, media specialists, counselors, and college students alike. To study extra about StickTogether Products, go to https://letsticktogether.com/.
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