Donate

Maker Ed

Maker Education Initiative

  • About
    • About Us
    • What is Maker Education?
    • Our Impact
    • Publications
    • Research
  • Professional Learning
    • Our Approach
    • Workshops & Events
    • Making Spaces
    • Toolkit for Educators
  • Resources
  • Blog

Introducing: MakerSphere!

Tweet

February 1, 2018 by Katie Barthelow 2 Comments

During the five years that our Maker Corps program ran, we learned a lot! The program evolved each year to meet the ever-changing needs of maker educators across the country, and now, we’re excited to be launching a pilot year of MakerSphere, new effort that takes into account all that we’ve discovered.

With MakerSphere we’re really digging into the model of hybrid engagement: blending in-person workshops with online and virtual work. The program is still centered around community-based summer work, but this time around we’re working with a regional model (several sites in the same geographical region) to see how we might help build up strong networks of maker education. Next week we’re off to Denver, CO and Austin, TX to facilitate our first round of pilot workshops — we’ll make sure to report back!

announcemnt icon

Participants in this year’s pilot effort are:

  • BLDG 61 at Boulder Public Library – Boulder, CO
  • ideaLAB at Denver Public Library – Denver, CO
  • Gold Crown Enrichment – Lakewood, CO
  • Gold Crown Enrichment: Edgewater Project – Edgewater, CO
  • Fort Worth Museum of Science and History – Fort Worth, TX
  • Mayborn Museum’s Design Den at Baylor University – Waco, TX
  • Thinkery – Austin, TX
  • BakerRipley – Houston, TX

There’s such rich, embedded, and sustained work happening all over the country, and we continue to be excited to learn from our partners, deepen relationships, and connect people across the board. In 2019, we plan to take this pilot to scale with more regions! Stay tuned!

······················································································································································

Maker Ed’s work wouldn’t be possible without the support of our sponsors. Thank you to Cognizant for funding the MakerSphere pilot! 

Filed Under: Community, News Tagged With: Maker Ed, Programs

Comments

  1. Lauren Siegel says

    February 7, 2018 at 3:27 pm

    HI,
    I was just reading about MakerSphere and was interested to see you’ll be where we are — Austin TX.

    We are a non-profit working to get more Math in STEM Programming as well as in other non-STEM places. Much of what we do is centered on making math models, exhibits and interactives. If you’ve got any time to chat or are interested in the Math aspect please let me know.
    thanks,
    Lauren Siegel
    The link takes you right to our blog where you can see some recent projects.
    ‘

    Reply
    • kbarthelow says

      February 14, 2018 at 10:53 am

      Hi Lauren!

      Your organization looks really great! It was a quick trip for MakerSphere, but we’ll be back in a couple of weeks for SXSWedu and are hosting a maker educator meet up we’d love to see you at. It will take place Tuesday March 6 from 6pm-8pm. The location is still being confirmed, but we have a facebook event where you can stay up to date on details. https://www.facebook.com/events/402206393556566/

      Hope to see you there!

      Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Tweet

Follow us

  • facebook
  • twitter
  • rss
  • instagram
  • Log In
  • Contact Us
© Maker Education Initiative

The Maker Education Initiative is a 501c3 non-profit organization. EIN#: 83-4594261
Unless otherwise noted, all the materials on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 license.