Our Mini Mobile Makerspace Kit

Based on some requests, I am posting a guide to the kit we put together for the Middle School Mobile Makerspace session. Each kit was designed for four kids to use with enough batteries and parts such that each could have at least one set. I purchased everything loose from Amazon. We also used Light Up Edison kits to explore the basics of circuits, from Eduporium.com.

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The Kit

Mini storage container (Stack-on 13 compartment)
9V batteries
Button cell batteries
Battery connectors
Alligator clip leads
Wires with a mix of male & female connectors
Buzzers
Push buttons (toggle & temporary)
Switches
LEDs
Copper tape (3' per participant)

In addition to the kit supplies we brought a spare parts kit, scissors, plyers, various types of heavy weight paper (chipboard, railroad board, card stock), fabric scraps, lots of tape, glue guns, a heavy duty hole punch, and screwdrivers.

PS - It turned out that the students really liked working with the button batteries and ended up going through almost twice as many as we put in the student kits.