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Make:Cast – Problem Solving is #1

By Dale Dougherty

Dale Dougherty

DALE DOUGHERTY is the leading advocate of the Maker Movement. He founded Make: Magazine 2005, which first used the term โ€œmakersโ€ to describe people who enjoyed โ€œhands-onโ€ work and play. He started Maker Faire in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006, and this event has spread to nearly 200 locations in 40 countries, with over 1.5M attendees annually. He is President of Make:Community, which produces Make: and Maker Faire.

In 2011 Dougherty was honored at the White House as a โ€œChampion of Changeโ€ through an initiative that honors Americans who are โ€œdoing extraordinary things in their communities to out-innovate, out-educate and out-build the rest of the world.โ€ At the 2014 White House Maker Faire he was introduced by President Obama as an American innovator making significant contributions to the fields of education and business. He believes that the Maker Movement has the potential to transform the educational experience of students and introduce them to the practice of innovation through play and tinkering.

Dougherty is the author of โ€œFree to Make: How the Maker Movement Is Changing our Jobs, Schools and Mindsโ€ with Adriane Conrad. He is co-author of "Maker City: A Practical Guide for Reinventing American Cities" with Peter Hirshberg and Marcia Kadanoff.

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Sarah Boisvert on Workforce Training for Digital Fabrication Jobs

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In Make: magazine Volume 75, in the article “Fabricating the Future of Work,” Sarah Boisvert writes:

“Digital fabrication is preparing makers for engaging well-paying careers today and into tomorrow.”

In this episode, we talk with Sarah Boisvert, an entrepreneur with extensive work experience in manufacturing, laser technology in 3d printing. Her most recent focus has been workforce training. Digital fabrication technology is creating new manufacturing jobs that she calls “new collar jobs” which require digital and physical hands-on experience. In 2018, Sarah published “The New Collar Workforce: An Insider’s Guide to Making Impactful Changes to Manufacturing and Training.” She has been researching how technology is creating new jobs for the “Future Workforce Now,” a project led by the National Governors Association.

She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she runs a lab in association with local community college where she’s developed a certified program for 3D printing operators. In this conversation, we talk about digital badges for digital fabrication skills and how there should be better alternatives to college, how janitorial robots at WalMart need a human to take care of them, and how employers would like to find more people with problem solving skills, the number one skill they are asking for.

“Industries from agriculture to warehousing have undergone digital changes that offer big opportunities for anyone with digital fabrication skills.”

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By Dale Dougherty

Dale Dougherty

DALE DOUGHERTY is the leading advocate of the Maker Movement. He founded Make: Magazine 2005, which first used the term โ€œmakersโ€ to describe people who enjoyed โ€œhands-onโ€ work and play. He started Maker Faire in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006, and this event has spread to nearly 200 locations in 40 countries, with over 1.5M attendees annually. He is President of Make:Community, which produces Make: and Maker Faire.

In 2011 Dougherty was honored at the White House as a โ€œChampion of Changeโ€ through an initiative that honors Americans who are โ€œdoing extraordinary things in their communities to out-innovate, out-educate and out-build the rest of the world.โ€ At the 2014 White House Maker Faire he was introduced by President Obama as an American innovator making significant contributions to the fields of education and business. He believes that the Maker Movement has the potential to transform the educational experience of students and introduce them to the practice of innovation through play and tinkering.

Dougherty is the author of โ€œFree to Make: How the Maker Movement Is Changing our Jobs, Schools and Mindsโ€ with Adriane Conrad. He is co-author of "Maker City: A Practical Guide for Reinventing American Cities" with Peter Hirshberg and Marcia Kadanoff.

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