By Tyler Swain, Creative Arts and Maker-Space Lead In June 2013 Omaha Children’s Museum embarked on a new chapter of engaging the imagination and creating an excitement about […]
Cognizant’s Making the Future U.S. 2014 After-school and Summer Program Grants Now Accepting Applications
Cognizant has opened up the 2014 grant application period for Making the Future Afterschool and Summer programs. Child-serving U.S. non-profit organizations wishing to run after-school, in-school, and summer maker programs can apply […]
Celebrating Our Maker Corps Mentor Class of 2013
By Steve Davee, Director of Education and Communications 19 States. 34 Host Sites. 108 Maker Corps Mentors. As our pilot summer of Maker Corps winds down, we at Maker […]
A Teacher’s Reflections on Maker Corps and Maker Faire Detroit
By Mary Foulke, Maker Corp Member, The Henry Ford “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, either way you are right” This famous quote, from Henry […]
Tinker, Hack, Invent at The Henry Ford
By Christopher Hemler, Curator of Education, The Henry Ford (Dearborn, MI) Founded in 1929 by Henry Ford as the Edison Institute Schools, The Henry Ford has grown into America’s Greatest […]
Maker Space and Maker Corps at the NY Hall of Science
By David Wells, Manager of Creative Making & Learning, NYSCI The New York Hall of Science is very excited to be hosting five members of the Maker Corps team this […]
Maker Corps at The Science Museum of Minnesota’s Learning Technologies Center
By Keith Braafladt, Director, Learning Technologies Center The Science Museum of Minnesota’s Learning Technologies Center (LTC) is very excited to be able to host Maker Corps members this summer. […]
Introducing The Works, a Maker Corps Host Site
By Guest Contributor Jessalyn Johnson, Education Programs Manager, The Works What is The Works? The Works is a hands-on museum in Bloomington Minnesota that makes learning about engineering, science, […]
Introducing Maker Corps Host Site COSI
By Guest Contributor Jaclyn Reynolds, COSI’s Public Relations and Social Media Manager COSI (Center Of Science and Industry) is Columbus’ dynamic hands-on science center. Our mission is to inspire interest […]
Making and Maker Corps at the Newark Museum
By Guest Contributor Kim Robledo-Diga, Newark Museum Director for Innovation and Learning Since its beginning, in 1909, Newark Museum has been an institution of art, science, technology and history. Within those […]