Let’s Invent! Celebrate Scratch Month with Makey Makey and micro:bit!

Let’s celebrate Scratch Month with Makey-Makey and micro:bit. Join us to mash up your two favorite tools using extensions in Scratch. We will share tips for using both and even share ideas for creating gesture-controlled wearables. Since we are all at home, let’s invent together!

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Shapes in Nature (Part 2) – Learning in the Making: LIVE!

Learning in the Making: LIVE! Join Maker Ed for “Shapes in Nature, Part 2” on May 13 at 1:00 PM PST at bit.ly/MakerEdLIVE Each week we are collecting and curating resources around a topic and the next two weeks are about structural engineering—buildings constructed by animals (May 6) and humans (May 11)! Join us in […]

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Rural Lunch & Learn: Using Roleplaying Games in (Virtual) Classrooms

Exploring the intersections of critical thinking, creativity, and SEL in storytelling with Dr. Karl Smith (Dr. Sparks). Join professional STEAM storyteller Dr. Karl Smith in this hourlong discussion of how to use the mechanics of collaborative storytelling as a way to foster social and emotional learning, open-ended problem solving, and creativity. You may be asked […]

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Unschooled: documentary screening

Unschooled is a documentary film focused on a world where children have the power to decide what and how they learn. The film follows the story of three teens – Amani, Miles and Jaya – and their families in the Philadelphia neighborhood of Germantown as they transition from public school to the newly-opened Natural Creativity Center […]

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Women’s Audio Mission: Virtual Girls on the Mic

Women’s Audio Mission is offering DAILY Girls on the Mic virtual classes via Zoom to students in the Bay Area during Spring 2020! Who are the classes for? Girls and […]

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Fast-tracking Digital Equity in Education during COVID-19

NIST Education SuperCluster NIST Education SuperClusterNST Join federal and national stakeholders on facing the frontlines of digital equity. There is a digital divide in the United States’ education system which […]

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Virtual MakerEd Meetups: Virtual Maker-Ed Summer Camp Chats

Join other makers for a free virtual zoom chat to brainstorm ways to facilitate virtual camp options in maker topics including tinkering, computer science, digital design/fabrication, electronics, textile arts, VR/AR/MR, carpentry, physical computing, a/v production, and robotics. Participants can join breakout rooms to discuss ideas for specific age ranges and for virtual camp administration.

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Women’s Audio Mission: Virtual Girls on the Mic

Women’s Audio Mission is offering DAILY Girls on the Mic virtual classes via Zoom to students in the Bay Area during Spring 2020! Who are the classes for? Girls and […]

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