[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] The official results of the Instructables international makerspace contest were announced this week. The website hosting the contest, Instructables.com, is a place where makers can document their projects and share instructions on how to make everything from simple recipes to complicated technology. The goal of […]
YuKonstruct’s Facebook page recently hit a milestone 1,000 likes! To celebrate, we decided to do a draw from amongst our one thousand fans. We used random.org to generate a random number between 1 and 1,000 and then counted down from our full list of Facebook followers. Nicole Bauberger was the lucky winner! She will receive […]
YuKonstruct volunteers designed and built the decorations for the Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous Steampunk Ball
Valentine’s Day themed craft night at YuKonstruct
YuKonstruct hosted a Valentine’s Day card making night with the Letter Writing Club. We had 7 different card kits for participants to choose from, from relatively simple to fairly complex, but the most popular ones, by far, were the kits containing LEDs to make light-up valentines. The circuit stickers that made the incredible cards possible were […]
YuKonstruct partnered with Splintered Craft, the Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre, Les EssentiElles and White Ribbon Yukon to make a project for the 12 Days to End Violence Against Women campaign. Over several days we built a large sculpture with the help of many volunteers. The sculpture depicts a woman walking forward, with the support of her […]
We recently had lots of fun making festive crafts and cards! For our all-ages Holiday Card and Craft Night we made mini snow globes, Christmas cards and ornaments out of fusible beads. Kits are still available from YuKonstruct if you’d like to try your hand at any of these fun crafts: Mini Snow Globes Standing Scene […]
On November 7th YuKonstruct joined locations across the country to offer free workshops for National Girls Learning Code Day. Organized by Ladies Learning Code and sponsored by Google, this yearly event helps get girls, aged 8 to 13, started building their own websites from scratch. In the Yukon, we’re used to overcoming challenges, and this […]
Happy Halloween! In honour of the spookiest holiday, YuKonstruct hosted a Halloween Craft Night on October 29th. Over 30 people joined us to make their own monsters and lanterns. We had three different kits with Halloween craft supplies. Participants could choose between designing their own felt monsters, stuffing glove octopus monsters and making glowing LED […]
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] The official results of the Instructables Makerspace Contest were announced on September 8, 2015. YuKonstruct finished third out of 49 makerspaces from around the world, just two instructables short of the group prizes! YuKonstruct’s final contest entry included 252 step-by-step instructables, written over a three month period, […]
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