Category: Community

  • Maker Corps 2015 at The Children’s Museum of the Upstate

    Maker Ed is excited to welcome The Children’s Museum of the Upstate as a Maker Corps Host Site in 2015. For the third year of Maker Corps, Maker Ed will collaborate with more […]

  • Maker Corps 2015 at Mamaroneck Union Free School District

    Maker Ed is thrilled to welcome back Mamaroneck Union Free School District as a Maker Corps Host Site in 2015. For the third year of Maker Corps, Maker Ed will collaborate with […]

  • Young Makers 2015: Welcome our Regional Coordinators!

    The Young Makers program is off to a new and exciting start this 2015 season! In the Bay Area, we have partnered with three fantastic organizations and key staff members […]

  • Announcing Maker Corps 2015 Host Sites

    We are thrilled to announce our Maker Corps Host Sites for 2015! For the third year of Maker Corps, Maker Ed will collaborate with more than forty organizations to host […]

  • Open Portfolios: Survey of Makerspaces, Part I

    As part of Maker Ed’s Open Portfolio Project, a maker site survey was developed to better understand how makerspaces — or any type of organization with youth-oriented maker programming, whether or […]

  • FabLab at Castlemont High

    FabLab at Castlemont High

    Reusing comes in all shapes and forms. Cardboard boxes can become robot bodies, mason jars make great candle holders, and sometimes, old ROTC shooting ranges can become aquaponics gardens, if you […]

  • Open Portfolios: Maker Portfolios in Schools

    The core team of Maker Ed’s Open Portfolio Project had the opportunity in the summer and fall of 2014 to embark on 10 exciting field site visits to youth-oriented makerspaces around the […]

  • Open Portfolios: Bay Area Video Coalition’s Media Portfolios

    This is the eighth in a series of blog posts about Maker Ed’s Open Portfolio Project work during the summer and fall 2014. These posts are also written in conjunction with the Research Briefs being released […]

  • Introducing Maker VISTA Cohort III

      Welcome our newest Maker VISTA cohort – Jessica Baggs, Lex Kennedy, Kelsey Leach, David Perlis and Chloe Umble, and learn a little more about them here. Our third cohort […]

  • Open Portfolios: DIY Documentation Tools for Makers

    Open Portfolios: DIY Documentation Tools for Makers

    As Maker Ed’s Open Portfolio Project concludes this phase of work, we are thrilled to share our third research brief: DIY Documentation Tools for Makers. This brief elaborates on some […]