Category: Maker VISTA
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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 of AmeriCorps Volunteers In Service To America (VISTA) members recently began their second month of service. New Members joined at The Exploratory: Maker Guilds (Los…
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Hi! I’m Chloe
I can’t tell you how many times my roommate of 5 years now has said to me, “You have too much time on your hands”. This is her default response whenever she’s found me taking apart a computer monitor, frankenstiening whatever ingredients I could find in our kitchen into some kind of dessert, creating…
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Maker Ed Goes to Washington: A Multi-Perspective Look at the White House Maker Faire
On Wednesday, June 18th, 2014, several members of the Maker Ed team were in Washington D.C. to attend the first-ever White House Maker Faire. In this post, each shares his/her own account of and reflections from the day: Lisa Regalla, Interim Executive Director The most powerful thing about the White House Maker Faire to me was the…
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Maker Ed Launches Campaign To Create and Expand Nationwide Network of Youth-Oriented Makerspaces
PRESS RELEASE Maker Ed Launches Campaign To Create and Expand Nationwide Network of Youth-Oriented Makerspaces Partners with Autodesk, Cognizant, FIRST, Intel, Maker Media, and US2020 to Support Access to Nearby Makerspaces for Every Child in America Oakland, CA, June 18, 2014: Announced at this week’s White House Maker Faire, the Maker Education Initiative (Maker Ed) launches…
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Three Insights From My Time at Lighthouse
Being newer to the Maker Ed team, I’ve been looking for more opportunities to see making in action. Last week, I got my chance when Lighthouse Community Charter School (one of our Maker Corps and Maker Vista sites) invited me to check out their end-of-year expo of student work. At the expo, parents, students and…
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Maker Ed Expands Reach of AmeriCorps VISTA Partnership
New VISTA Members will impact thousands in high poverty communities throughout the United States By Rachel Goldman Alper, Director of Strategic Alliances The Maker Education Initiative (Maker Ed) will expand its AmeriCorps VISTA project from its California focus to include five underserved communities throughout the United States. Ten new VISTA members and a VISTA leader…
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See SAM Grow: Saturdays at the Sanger SAM Academy
by Janet Miller and Victoria Cortez SAM’s doors opened in late September and her VISTAs, Janet and Victoria, arrived on November 25, 2013. While walls were still being painted, the show went on for “OSOT,” one of the thousand or so acronyms the VISTAs are still learning but “out-of-school-time” is what SAM is all…
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Making MAKING Journals
By Jessica Gray Schipp, Maker AmeriCorps VISTA at the Lighthouse Community Charter School Creativity Lab Journal, sketchbook, notebook, blog, book, diary, scrapbook, daybook, log — no matter what you call these information collectors, they all do the same sort of something. They provide a way to document our experiences. They can be shared or private, written or…
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Maker AmeriCorps VISTA at the Da Vinci Center in Stockton, CA: Connecting Community Through Making
Abigail Avila & Thomas Hornyak were sworn in to the VISTA program as part of the Maker Ed Initiative on Nov. 22nd in L.A. The next day they moved to their new community, Stockton, during Thanksgiving week and started work at the Da Vinci Center for Innovative Learning. Since the volunteers had no housing, they stayed…
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The Exploratory and Maker Guilds of Los Angeles
Co-authored by Max Nishimura and Danielle Owens The Exploratory was a project that originated from summer camps. Jean, our founder and ‘chief tinkerer’, wanted to provide her son and his friends activities that would encourage creative and innovative thinking. As the popularity of her program grew, she began doing after-school programs at various schools, working…