Category: Maker Ed
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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…
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Soaring to great heights: The Viper
The Viper is a full-motion flight simulator inspired by the TV series Battlestar Galactica. It was built by five Young Makers and debuted at Bay Area Maker Faire in 2012.
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Casey’s Arduino Hamster Ball
Inside this autonomous hamster ball are weights that are under software control, used to guide the ball. Hamster not included, nor is it needed! in any direction.
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Cameron’s Tesla Coil
Cameron shares his ideas for the construction of a Tesla Coil with other Young Makers in one of the “plussing sessions”, part of each monthly meeting.
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Silvia’s Fairy Wall House
Young Makers projects aren’t just about robots and fire.
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PLUSSING: Bjørn’s Lizard Tiles Wall Art
Bjorn shares his laser cut puzzle inspired by M.C. Escher with other Young Makers at one of the monthly meetings.
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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…