Category: Community
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Maker Parent Stories, Part One: Origins on Instructables
This is the first 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 […]
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Orange County, CA Meetup for Makers and Educators: Thursday, Dec 6
Join Orange County Makers for a Meetup Thursday, December 6 at 7pm, featuring Dale Dougherty, founding editor and publisher of MAKE magazine and the co-creator of Maker Faire, […]
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Maker Ed Executive Director AnnMarie Thomas at TEDxTC: Making Makers
November 29, 2012 by Steve Davee TEDx talks has just released this November 2011 TEDxTC talk by Maker Ed Executive Director, AnnMarie Thomas, given while she was a professor in the Engineering […]
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The Exploratory: Where Curiosity Leads to Adventure
November 28, 2012, by Jean Kaneko Tinker.Make.Innovate As the Chief Tinkerer of The Exploratory, it’s been my pleasure to work with hundreds of children, educators and parents in Los Angeles to bring […]
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Preschool replaces toys with cardboard: Awesome happens
November 21, 2012 by Steve Davee As we’ve mentioned in a previous post, The Wonders of Cardboard & Caine’s Arcade Global Cardboard Challenge! we at Maker Ed are very fond of cardboard. […]
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Automata for the People: How my class followed their wonderful ideas
November 20, 2012 by Rob Van Nood “The having of wonderful ideas is what I consider the essence of intellectual development.” —Eleanor Duckworth […]
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Kelvin Doe, Teen Self-Taught Engineer From Sierra Leone
November 19, 2012 by Steve Davee Kelvin Doe was one of the talented and inspiring “Meet the Young Makers” panelists for September’s World Maker Faire (although the audio quality is […]
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Leah Buechley: How to “sketch” with electronics
November 16, 2012 by AnnMarie Thomas Recently, I had the chance to visit the MIT Media Media lab and Dr. Leah Buechley’s High-Low Tech group. One treat of this visit […]
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The Makery: A pop-up Makerspace model
November 15, 2012, by Steve Davee Welcome to the Makery from John Des Roches on Vimeo. Makerspaces —places of invention, exploration and creation— are popping up everywhere, as […]
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Announcing the Bay Area Young Makers Program for 2013
November 13, 2012 by Tony DeRose and Michelle Hlubinka Photos © 2012 Young Makers Program The Young Makers Program (youngmakers.org) connects young people with adult mentors and fabricators to create […]