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 with and contributing to the Making community. We would love to invite more stories from parents or guardians about young makers. Feel free to Contact…
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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, and Paloma Garcia-Lopez, Director of Operations & Development for the Maker Education Initiative. This is a great opportunity to meet fellow makers, and to discuss with Dale…
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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 and Engineering Education programs at the University of St. Thomas. During this time AnnMarie regularly interviewed a wide variety of makers, in order to help…
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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 Tinkering and Making STEAM (Science,Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) related learning opportunities into Classrooms, living rooms, parks, parties and community events. Our projects empower children to be…
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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. From Arlington, Ohio comes this wonderful story of preschool teacher Pete Kaser who, inspired by his students, removed all of the toys and standard classroom…
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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 In February of 2012 my class…
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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 poor, you can see the panel here). Kelvin was visiting the United States for the first time from Sierra Leone, where he was a finalist in the Innovate Salone…
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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 was seeing the innovative e-textile and painted circuitry techniques that Leah and her students are developing. Thus, it was great to see that a recent…
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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 stand-alone venues, and places within establishments such as schools, libraries, museums, and community centers. They even in appear in mobile truck or bike trailer form. For those with the drive to expand…
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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 opportunities for kids to dream up and develop projects for Maker Faire each year. We encourage kids to develop projects based on their own interests and ideas.…