Category: Community
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Open Make and Young Makers @ The Tech Museum of Innovation
By Steve Davee On Saturday, January 11, Maker Ed Program Director Lisa Regalla, Maker Ed Founder and Chair of the Advisory Board Dale Dougherty, and I had the great privilege of attending Open Make at The Tech Museum of Innovation, held in their brand new space, The Tech Studio. For this Open…
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Holy Spirit Preparatory Expanding Its Maker Program
January 8, 2013 By Guest Contributor Andres Pinzon, Holy Spirit Preparatory School STEM Center Director, Atlanta, Georgia Holy Spirit Preparatory School (HSP) has offered since 1996 a learning environment where students with diverse cultural backgrounds enthusiastically acquire knowledge and cultivate the skills necessary for leadership in the 21st century. The economic and technological developments of the…
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Let Your Child Awaken Your Inner Maker
December 28, 2012 by Jennifer Griffin Reprinted with permission from The Homeschooler, a publication of The HomeSchool Association of California (www.hsc.org), a non-profit organization providing broad support to homeschooling families, and protecting homeschool freedoms through monitoring and legislative influence. Not even a week after the Maker Faire Bay Area 2012, I was still creating almost non-stop. I attended…
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17 preschoolers + play dough + circuits = a fun morning
December 21, 2012 By AnnMarie Thomas, Maker Ed My daughter as one of the pilot testers for Squishy Circuits, back in ~2010. Makers helping makers, young and old, is at the heart of the Maker Movement. The Maker Ed blog has had wonderful posts from makers who are teaching young makers. (Some of these “Maker…
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The Joys and Benefits of Learning Chaos
December 18, 2012 Guest post by Karen P. Kaun, EdD, Maker Kids program founder Maker Kids engages students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) through do-it-yourself (DIY) or “making” experiences. The program’s activity units, aligned with The Common Core State Standards and NYSED science standards, establish making as a tool to increase the cognitive…
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2012- Celebrating The Year of Cardboard
December 14, 2012 By Steve Davee, Maker Ed I ran into this little friend of mine and his cardboard wings earlier this week. The story behind them is quite sweet. His mother was kind enough to share this account: …He had decided to make a cat bed, so his father helped him cut and…
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Maker Parent Stories, Part Three: Teaching Experiences
This is the final of three posts featuring stories shared by the parents of 12 year-old Quin, aka Qtechknow, about his experiences as a young maker, meeting with and contributing to the Making community. The first post can be found here, and the second, here. We would love to invite more stories from parents or guardians about…
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Introducing Lisa Regalla, Maker Ed Program Director
At the heart of the Maker Movement are the makers themselves. As I visit makerspaces and Maker Faires, the creativity, generosity, and optimism of the makers that I meet is inspiring. It reminds me of why Maker Ed’s goal is for every child to have the opportunity to see themselves as a maker. It is…
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Maker Parent Stories, Part Two: Maker Faire and Meeting Makers
This is the second in a series of three posts featuring stories shared by the parents of 12 year-old Quin, aka Qtechknow, about his experiences as a young maker, meeting with and contributing to the Making community. The first post can be found here. We would love to invite more stories from parents or guardians…
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Announcing: Milton Fisher Scholarship for Innovation and Creativity
December 5, 2012, by Jessica Margolin Do you know a talented young “maker”? Specifically, a student who has: solved an artistic, scientific, or technical problem in a new or unusual way come up with a distinctive solution to problems faced by his or her school, community or family created a new group, organization, or institution that…