Tag: Tinkering
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Meet Zahra Syed – Weaving Light into Making
In this post, we meet Zahra Syed, She/Her, and she is Maker Ed’s Operations Manager. Tell us a little more about you. Hi! I am Zahra. Telling stories, relationships and scrappy making are my positive obsessions. I love sharing food with family and community (my people) and indulging in joyful, fun, leisurely conversations. I love…
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Meet Donaldo Almazan – Artist and Engineer Designing Maker Ed’s Online Community
In this post, we meet Donaldo Almazan (he/him), an artist and engineer helping to create Maker Ed’s online community for makers and educators, which is launching this summer! Tell us a little more about you. Hello! I’m Donaldo, a Community Engagement Co-lead at Maker Ed. I’m originally from South Texas (Rio Grande Valley ☀️ )…
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Meet Isabel Emmons — Designing for Human Happiness
In this post, we meet Isabel, (she/her/hers) a positive and cognitive psychologist focused on bridging joy and play with community engagement and facilitation to build a fun, diverse, robust Maker Ed network. Tell us a little more about you. I studied human happiness and brain science because I’m interested in the ways we understand, cultivate,…
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WICO Workshop: My Electric Valentine
Celebrate Valentine’s Day at this evening of tinkering with art, science and technology at the Maker Ed Community Studio as we explore LEDs, copper tape, soldering irons and a wide variety of craft materials. You’ll get an introduction to the basics of creating a light-up card that expresses your most (or least) romantic feelings thorugh…
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Ask a Maker Educator – Computational Tinkering
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Maker Corps Host Sites in Miami, FL
A S.T.E.A.M.ing hot Maker Ed coalition is coming to Miami! Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science, MIAMade at The LAB Miami, and REM Learning Center’s Play Make Share Program are proud to be teaming up with Maker Education Initiative to kickstart Maker Education in Miami-Dade County Florida. As hosts of the Maker Corps Summer…
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Maker Corps at The Exploratory in Culver City, CA
by Jean Kaneko, Chief Tinkerer The Exploratory is pumped and ready for our 2nd year as a Maker Corps Host Site. The Exploratory is located in Culver City CA and is an imagination space for children, an innovation space for adults and a maker space for the whole community. This is our 4th year of…
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Lighthouse Community Charter School in Oakland, CA
by Aaron Vanderwerff The Lighthouse Creativity Lab: Call for Makers The Lighthouse Creativity Lab is excited to be able to host two Maker Corps Members as we embark on our first summer making program. We believe that it is important to bring making into the lives of our students because they develop creative confidence, a broader…
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Keene Public Library in Keene, NH
by Lyndsey Runyan, Teen Services Librarian Keene Public Library is excited to welcome two new Maker Corp Members to our library for a summer of awesome making, creating, and tinkering with kids and teens. Our library serves as an education, cultural, and social center where citizens of all walks of life come together and learn. Around four…
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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 History Attraction. A single destination with five distinct attractions, it includes Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, The Henry Ford IMAX Theatre, the Ford Rouge Factory…