Category: Community
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Maker Corps Mentor Mariah Noelle Villarreal
By Paloma Garcia-Lopez Mariah Noelle Villarreal is the kind of role model we were looking for when we created Maker Corps. In 7th grade, Mariah tried to make her own computer. She locked herself up in her room for hours on end, teaching herself to program and how to take a computer apart. Her parents watched…
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Inventor Job Posting
Overview: This holiday season, a world-renowned tech company is opening pop-up stores that will offer consumers a one-of-a-kind in-store experience, which showcases a variety of leading consumer electronics, encourages recycling of used electronics, and offers unique in-store programming by way of events, contests, and special discounts. Maker Ed is excited to be working with this…
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Cognizant’s Making the Future U.S. 2014 After-school and Summer Program Grants Now Accepting Applications
Cognizant has opened up the 2014 grant application period for Making the Future Afterschool and Summer programs. Child-serving U.S. non-profit organizations wishing to run after-school, in-school, and summer maker programs can apply from October 1 through November 15, 2013. Programs must support the program’s mission, which is to inspire young learners in the STEM disciplines by providing fun,…
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Cognizant’s Making the Future U.S. College Scholarship Program Now Accepting Applications For 2014
Cognizant has opened the application period for its U.S. College Scholarship program for makers. High school seniors and college makers interested in pursuing the STEM fields are invited to submit a 3-minute video of something they’ve made that illustrates both creativity and innovation to be eligible to earn a $5,000 college scholarship. The application period for…
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Celebrating Our Maker Corps Mentor Class of 2013
By Steve Davee, Director of Education and Communications 19 States. 34 Host Sites. 108 Maker Corps Mentors. As our pilot summer of Maker Corps winds down, we at Maker Ed would like to take this opportunity to thank and officially acknowledge our Maker Corps Members and their newly earned status as “Maker Corps Mentors.”…
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Maker Ed Announces New STEM-Related Partnership with AmeriCorps VISTA
Press release: Oakland, CA, August 26, 2013— Maker Ed Announces New STEM-Related Partnership with AmeriCorps VISTA Collaboration echoes goals of President Obama’s effort to increase national service opportunities The Maker Education Initiative (Maker Ed) today announced a partnership with the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) to place 22 AmeriCorps VISTA…
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A Teacher’s Reflections on Maker Corps and Maker Faire Detroit
By Mary Foulke, Maker Corp Member, The Henry Ford “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, either way you are right” This famous quote, from Henry Ford, kept running through my mind this past weekend at Maker Faire Detroit. In fact, it has continued to run through my mind as I…
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Making as a Celebration: Increasing Access to Creative Technology at the Free Library of Philadelphia
By K-Fai Steele, Free Library of Philadelphia It’s easy to focus on Philadelphia’s deficits: it is the most impoverished of the top-ten large cities in the United States: 28% of Philadelphians (between 430,000 and 440,000 people) live below the federal poverty line. 39% percent (135,000) of those people are children. 23 public schools closed this…
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EurekaFest 2013
By Maker Corps Member Cole Houston, MIT/ Museum of Science, Boston What do you get when you combine 270 high school students from around the world, thirty excited mentors, over one thousand rubber ducks, over a mile of duct tape, six fans with airplane propellers for blades, marathon blankets, and three hours to build something? You…
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Maker Ed Places 108 Corps Members in Maker Movement Organizations
Press Release Maker Corps Engages Thousands of Youth in Activities That Inspire Innovation & Entrepreneurship Oakland, CA, June 11, 2013: The Maker Education Initiative (Maker Ed) will announce its first successful year of Maker Corps at the Clinton Global Initiative in Chicago, a gathering that includes NGO Leaders, CEOs, STEM Educators and top government officials.…