Over the course of his fascinating career, Bob Reilly has worked in a variety of roles and industries \u2014 from robotics engineering and the medical field to education and history. He\u2019s even dabbled in politics, serving as a senator representative, and in library science, working as the Director of the Pawling Library for a time. Many will also remember Reilly as the Academic Computer Coordinator here at Trinity-Pawling in the early 2000s. \u201cI guess I haven\u2019t quite decided what I want to be when I grow up,\u201d he shared with a smile.<\/p>\r\n
With his vast array of knowledge and expertise, Reilly was thrilled to return to Trinity-Pawling this year to serve as the MakerSpace Facilitator in the Gardiner Library and Learning Commons<\/a>. Just over two years in the making, the School\u2019s MakerSpace is a collaborative work area in Gardiner Library where faculty and students can engage in hands-on learning and discovery. The space is equipped with all the tools students need (and then some!) to design, create, prototype, and test \u2014 all within a safe learning environment.<\/p>\r\n As the MakerSpace Facilitator, Reilly doesn\u2019t teach just one specific class. Instead, he has the opportunity to be a part of every class on campus, from history to physics. \u201cI joke that I don\u2019t have to go to work…I go to play,\u201d Reilly shared. \u201cI get to research, design, and promote interdisciplinary projects to make any class more active and hands-on. The work that the boys do here in the MakerSpace gives them a new perspective on what they\u2019re learning in the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\r\n Like building model ships to learn about maritime travel during the Age of Exploration in World History; or creating three dimensional models of the human digestive system in 7th Grade Science; or building radio-controlled race cars in First Year Physics. And those are just the beginning!<\/p>\r\n \u201cLight bulb moments have to be my favorite part of this job,\u201d Reilly shared. \u201cWhen the boys actually get their race car to move or they solve a problem all on their own…when the material from class starts to click. That\u2019s when I know I\u2019m doing something right.\u201d<\/p>\r\n For Reilly, the MakerSpace is an invaluable aspect of Trinity-Pawling\u2019s academic environment. \u201cEvery student learns in a different way \u2014 this hands-on, learning by doing approach allows the students to dive in, explore with guidance, and learn a lot about themselves in the process.\u201d<\/p>\r\n With the Winter Term well underway, Reilly looks forward to an exciting series of new projects, including building a functional telegraph, designing and constructing bridges from uncooked spaghetti to test weight, and even building a lie detector. He is also eager to be a resource for any and all Winter Projects<\/a>. \u201cThe opportunities in the MakerSpace are truly endless,\u201d Reilly concluded. \u201cWhat can we build next?\u201d<\/p>\r\n by Emma Christiantelli<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the course of his fascinating career, Bob Reilly has worked in a variety of roles and industries \u2014 from robotics engineering and the medical field to education and history. He\u2019s even dabbled in politics, serving as a senator representative, and in library science, working as the Director of the Pawling Library for a time. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-december-2019"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"LEARNING BY DOING","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3527,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions\/3527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}