Category: Maker VISTA

  • Grass Valley + Maker VISTA: Accelerating Making and Impact

    Grass Valley + Maker VISTA: Accelerating Making and Impact

    Grass Valley was committed to integrating more making into students’ day-to-day learning, but needed a jolt of energy and effort to propel their small staff over initial starting speed bumps. Maker VISTA members, through Maker Ed’s Maker VISTa program, provided that accelerating boost. Read More…

  • A Weekend of Making at Maker VISTA Partner Site Drew Charter: STEAM Day + DESIGNORAMA

    A Weekend of Making at Maker VISTA Partner Site Drew Charter: STEAM Day + DESIGNORAMA

    The holistic experience of making that is somehow able to integrate the learner’s mind and body, along with the efforts and energies of fellow learners and community members was undeniably achieved and excitingly evident during a recent STEAM extravaganza weekend held at Maker VISTA partner site, Drew Charter School, in Atlanta.

  • Maker Moments: March 2017

    Making MAKING Happen Through Maker VISTA  Our Maker VISTA program focuses on overcoming poverty through maker education. Maker VISTA members serve at partner sites around the country to impact organizations and […]

  • Make & Share: Snapshots from Maker VISTA

    Our Maker VISTA program focuses on overcoming poverty through maker education. This month we asked Maker VISTA members at partner sites nationwide to encapsulate explorations underway in their maker worlds. Here’s a […]

  • Intention and Impact at Grass Valley’s Black History Month Family Maker Night

    Intention and Impact at Grass Valley’s Black History Month Family Maker Night

    This past Thursday, Maker VISTA partner site Grass Valley Elementary School in Oakland, CA held a Black History Month Family Maker Night & Heritage Potluck. This event featured a little […]

  • Black History Month: Making, Movement, & Community Connection

    Black History Month: Making, Movement, & Community Connection

    February is Black History Month and a fitting, prime time for tying in classroom content while calling out the crucial contributions of diverse voices and visions in making. So many […]

  • Maker Moments: February 2017

    Maker Moments: February 2017

    Making MAKING Happen Through Maker VISTA  Our Maker VISTA program focuses on overcoming poverty through maker education. Maker VISTA members serve at partner sites around the country to impact organizations and […]

  • Make & Share: Snapshots from Maker VISTA

    Our Maker VISTA program focuses on overcoming poverty through maker education. This month we asked Maker VISTA members at partner sites nation-wide to share instances of making in action—and in full color! […]

  • Maker Moments: January 2017

    Maker Moments: January 2017

    Making MAKING Happen Through Maker VISTA  Our Maker VISTA program focuses on overcoming poverty through maker education. Maker VISTA members serve at partner sites around the country to impact organizations and […]

  • Make & Share: Snapshots from Maker VISTA

    Make & Share: Snapshots from Maker VISTA

    Our Maker VISTA program focuses on overcoming poverty through maker education. This month we asked Maker VISTA members at partner sites nation-wide to share a word that describes a reward of making. Here’s […]