Category: Making Spaces
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Adapting to a Virtual World at Northcentral Technical College
This article is part of a series of interviews with our partner organizations in the Making Spaces program. Read more Hub Highlights here. Tell us a little bit about your organization and the learners that you serve! Northcentral Technical College (NTC) is a customer-focused, accessible provider of innovative lifelong learning that builds a globally competitive…
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A Community Spark for Play: Maker-Centered Learning at Knock Knock Children’s Museum
This article is part of a series of interviews with our partner organizations in the Making Spaces program. Read more Hub Highlights here. Can you imagine very young children… Making and tinkering with a chicken coop on campus? Gardening on the Go? Taking part in a You “Grow” Girl program? Making cardboard arcade games? Hosting…
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Checking In with Our Making Spaces Hubs: Updates from the Field
Making Spaces is a 30-month professional learning and capacity building program designed to support local leadership around maker education and build the foundation for lasting, embedded change in pedagogy, community, and culture. We select a new cohort of partner organizations (Hubs) each year, and work with the cohort for an initial six months to develop…
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Announcing Our Fourth Cohort of Making Spaces Hubs!
We are very excited to announce our fourth cohort of Making Spaces Hubs! These 10 hubs—including two community makerspaces, three K–12 school systems, three higher education institutions, and three museums—are joining this 30-month professional learning and capacity-building program designed to develop local leadership around maker-centered learning. Read more…
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Maker Ed and Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Welcome New Cohort of Hubs to “Making Spaces” to Sustain Maker Education
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: With continued support from Google, six new hubs join national network of regional hubs that sustainably integrate maker education across the country Oakland, Calif., September 2018 – Building on three years of foundational work, leading to sustained and community-oriented maker education efforts, and with continued support from Google, Maker Education Initiative (Maker Ed) and…
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Welcoming 5 New Hubs into the Making Spaces Program
We are so excited to announce that we’ve selected 5 new Regional Hubs to join the Making Spaces Program! Read more…
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Growing Maker Education in the Midwest: A Making Spaces Story
As a physics teacher at Harding Senior High, the largest Title I high school in Minnesota, I never thought I’d have to kick my students out of class or tell them they had to go home by 5 p.m. But as our school moved towards building projects with our students, this “problem” grew as well.
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Launching Making Spaces Crowdfunding Campaigns
Making Spaces schools across the country have been hard at work crafting crowdfunding campaigns to support each of their unique visions of making! Read more…
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Introducing our Making Spaces Schools
We have been hard at work getting our Making Spaces program up and running and are excited to announce the 7 schools that will be participating as part of the Maker Ed Hub in this nation-wide program. Boze Elementary School – Tacoma WA Harding Senior High School – St. Paul, MN Kailua Elementary School –…
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Making Spaces Program Now Accepting School Applications to Partner with Maker Ed
We are seeking school partners for our newest program Making Spaces! Maker Ed is one of 10 Making Spaces Hubs and we are accepting applications to join our network of 5-10 schools working to expand or integrate making in their school communities. We will partner with schools to create crowdfunding campaigns as well as provide professional development to support your making efforts…