The Wire

This month, we asked you to show us your plan for a project of your choice. We got a wide variety of plans related to Mouse projects like The DIY Project, Garage Robotics, GreenTECH, Serious Games, and many other ideas! Thank you to everyone who submitted a blueprint, storyboard, slideshow or any other kind of plan!

Our Grand Prize

Earning the MicroProject Winner Badge and a $60 gift card to Best Buy for their squad is Winnie10 from Baruch Tech Team Innovators in New York City. They created a plan to for a project to encourage recycling and included presenting that project at the Emoti-Con Digital Media and Technology Festival, an annual design and technology fair where NYC students can show off their work. This project outlines the project concept, responsibilities, materials and a timeline. Incredible work! Congratulations to Winnie10 and Baruch Tech Team Innovators.

Our First Runner Up

Our first runner up, receiving a Papertronics Lunar Module for their squad, is DHernandez. from ACMSQUAD 2014-2015 in California. They used Google Slides to create a step-by-step plan for making a game in Scratch and then created one! We love that the plan included the decision making process for the game idea and as well as some concept art for the game.

Check out "Pacman Platform" here!

Our Second Runner Up

Our second Runner Up (also receiving a Papertronics Lunar Module) is hgrewal from Bulldogs Mouse Squad in Michigan. They made an awesome plan for a project to increase public knowledge of air powered cars. Not only did they make an awesome storyboard but they also made a short video in Animoto, and a very detailed prezi as well. Thanks for all the hard work!

Check out "What Are Air Powered Cars" here!

Honorable Mentions

There were so many great projects this month we wish we had more prizes to give away! We would like to share these honorable mentions:

• Balraj29 took painstaking detail to show us how to bake a cake.
• YanelliJ made a storyboard for a video to explain how to use Gamestar Mechanic.
• AngelFrazier created a storyboard for a video on how to make animations in PowerPoint.
• AlfredoE created a Prezi for a tutorial to teach a soccer move.

Shout out for Wins!

It's never too late to award Wins to your favorite MicroProject entries! Give wins for creativity, technical know-how or inspiration. This month we'd like to shout out 17GalitBolo for giving a great inspiration win. 17GalitBolo, we think you are Winner with a capital W!

When you see someone make a cool MicroProject submission, let them know that they did a great job by giving them a win! You can always go back and give wins to old projects.

Thank you to Coordinators and students who participated and submitted so many awesome bookmarklets! Next month is time to teach the Mouse Squad network a skill you know in the annual DIY Project!.