Create Your Own Animated Hero in Piskel
Empire State Maker Faire 2020
October 16th-17th
Create your own animated hero in Piskel, the free online editor for animated sprites and pixel art. Your hero will have superpowers, a powerful amulet or tool, and a weakness too. Will your hero save the world? You must first bring them to life with your animated art.
Stephen Gilman
Stephen is a passionate, veteran leader in STEM and maker education who has established over 100 STEM makerspaces in public and private schools nationwide. Stephen is a father, former inner-city public school teacher, veteran, activist and champion of student-centered, hands-on learning that fosters joyful, autonomous, and inventive lifelong learners at the earliest ages. Stephen and his son Ben started MakerState to bring fun STEAM building and learning projects in robotics, coding, game design and more to all kids, schools and communities (STEAM: science, tech, engineering, arts, math). Stephen is a founding board member of the Urban Assembly Maker Academy, a founder of the Carnegie Learning Center, a founding teacher and dean of Bronx Collegiate, a public school based in Outward Bound experiential learning, and a founding board member of the volunteer network, UlsterCorps. Stephen enjoys historical fiction writing, game design, geocaching, hiking, biking around NYC, and creativity of all kinds, especially if it’s with his boy, Ben.
