An Over Coffee® Valentine special

(Photo courtesy of Mitchell Malpartida, and used with permission.)

Need a Valentine for someone special? And you’d like it to be much more imaginative than the standard flowers, candy and/or a card?

Technologist, maker and educator Mitchell Malpartida has some great ideas.

As a regular contributor to the Make: community and the Founder of Masterful Creations STEAM Academy, Mitch teaches workshops on science, technology, engineering, art and math. At the core of his lessons is a sense of fun and creativity, as he visits schools and offers online maker workshops and sessions in his local community.

And he’s also having a lot of fun teaching maker skills to his own children. Not to mention learning with them, as they come up with new ideas! (You’ll find a number of his projects on his YouTube channel.)

During our 2022 interview on Valentine’s Day-related maker projects, Mitch offered a creative maker’s approach to some of the Valentine standards.

Happy Valentine’s Day to you and all your Valentines!

On this edition of Over Coffee® we cover:

• Mitch’s ideas for Valentine maker projects, based on classic Valentine traditions;
  

• His experiences as a maker, learning and exploring with his own children;
  

• How to overcome the “intimidation factor” with technology and new hands-on projects;
  

• A new resource and a new concept with which Mitchell is working, that are inspiring him to create new maker projects;
  

• The story behind a project that took Mitchell out of his comfort zone, as a maker;
  

• Where he’d like to expand his skills and work more, in the future.
  

Would you like to meet Mitch and find out more about his latest maker projects–and the workshops he teaches, for local schools, the community and online? He’ll be exhibiting at the annual Las Vegas Science and Technology Festival on May 6th!
In addition, Mitch currently has S.T.E.A.M. (science, technology, engineering, art and math) maker kits available. Find out more at his Masterful Creations STEAM Academy website or by emailing info@masterfulcreations.com.