Category: Community

Design Challenges at the Museum of Science November 9, 2012 by Lydia Beall Design Challenges invites visitors to think like engineers as they design, build, and test solutions to a “challenge of the day”. Housed in the Engineering Design Workshop at the Museum of Science, Boston, we’ve served over 350,000 visitors since 2003, and 52%…

Are you a Maker? Attending college? Announcing Cognizant’s Making the Future college scholarship program. Cognizant is committed to preparing the next generation with the skills they will need to be active participants in a rapidly changing world where new ideas, life-changing breakthroughs, and solutions to challenges yet to be determined, will depend on innovative and…

November 7, 2012, by Dara Olmsted Who are we? Iridescent is a team of engineers, scientists, anthropologists and educators who believe children need to be curious, courageous, and persistent to succeed in life. We believe that a technical training background and skill set is the door out of a life of poverty. We work with…

November 5, 2012, by Gary Donahue In many K-12 schools “clubs” and “electives” are often great starting points for engaging more kids in Making. It’s challenging though (even for well meaning schools) to transition these experiences from optional pit-stops in your curriculum to their more deserving role as the main vehicle with which to explore…

November 2, 2012, by AnnMarie Thomas This is the final part of three posts sharing stories from our panel of maker parents at this year’s World Maker Faire. Meet the panelists and read their answers to the question “How did your child get involved in making?” in Part One. Part Two covers “What sort of…

November 1, 2012 by Mark Greenlaw Today, Cognizant opened the 2013 application period for Making the Future After-School and Summer Program grants. Making the Future seeks to inspire young learners to pursue science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines by creating fun, hands-on learning opportunities.   Developed in partnership with the Maker Education Initiative, the program…

November 1, 2012 by AnnMarie Thomas This is the second part of three posts sharing stories from our panel of maker parents at this year’s World Maker Faire. Meet the panelists and read their answers to the question “How did your child get involved in making?” in our previous post here. Part three, coming tomorrow,…

 October 31, 2012, by AnnMarie Thomas A popular session in the Education Cafe at this year’s World Maker Faire was the Q&A with a panel of maker parents. Recently, we followed up with the four parent panelists to hear stories of how their children got into making, and their recommendations for resources for maker families!…

Bringing cutting-edge research to K-12 students and parents October 30, 2012, by Dara Olmsted The Curiosity Machine is a website and mobile app that hosts a collection of exciting and challenging engineering projects designed for children and their parents to encourage curiosity, creativity, and persistence. The activities help families move beyond passive consumption of information and…

 Maker Ed is pleased to present the first of a series stories from the founder of MakerKids and past Maker Ed contributor Karen P. Kaun. Have any ideas for stories you’d love to share? Contact me at Steve@MakerEd.org October 26, 2012, by Karen P. Kaun,EdDMaker Kids connects students to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) through actively engaging them…