She turned the abandoned factory into a maker classroom.

As a maker and teacher, Yan led students to play many learning experiences at school. For example, design a domino mechanism that bypasses the whole school and transform the factory into a maker classroom.

Because of her, Banqiao High School in New Taipei City has become different. It used to be just one of the five voluntary schools in Jibei District, with no obvious characteristics. However, in recent years, a group of young teachers have promoted innovative courses. Yan, who is only 43kg, renovated the abandoned iron works of the school and became the first maker classroom (creative and technological development center) in public high schools in China, making Sakaka a veritable "New North No.1 Middle School" in terms of innovative courses and international trends.

Hold a domino performance combining mathematics and physics

Three years ago, Yan first called on teachers and students to try to turn the organ dominoes around the auditorium. The next year's celebration was even bigger. Dominoes started at the school gate and spread all over the school. Textbooks, schoolbags, class numbers, student ID cards, erasers, desks and chairs ... all things on campus that can be fixed in angle and fall off when touched are useful. There is even a "human domino". When dominoes arrived at the playground, more than 300 people were mobilized to discharge rectangles, which were turned out one by one and became the school emblem in the board, creating unforgettable moments for students.

This domino show, which combines mathematics, physics, life science and technology, has aroused great repercussions and has also been affirmed by the New Taipei City Teaching Excellence Award. So I saw the manual and creative kinetic energy of teachers and students in the school.

Since August last year, the abandoned iron factory that was originally locked in the campus has been gradually transformed into a brand-new maker classroom and turned into a dream factory for Yan and his students. There are state-of-the-art 3D printers and laser cutting machines in the classroom, and students learn to use them through elective courses and workshops. Want to be Iron Man? No problem, draw a picture on the computer, print out three-dimensional components at once, assemble them and match them with circuits, and they will become exclusive dolls with movable hands and feet and bright lights.