Human-Powered Helicopters: Straight Up Difficult
Check out this great NPR piece about engineering students at University of Maryland that are trying to win a three-decades-old contest for human powered flight.
Education
Maker Education is such a valuable role. These stories will bring you the latest information and tales of maker educators who area spreading the maker mindset. Help others learn how to make things or how to think like a maker at makerspaces, schools, universities, and local communities. The importance of maker education can not be understated. We appreciate our educators.
Students descend on Maker Faire’s Education Day
Before Maker Faire starts tomorrow in New York, K-12 students got a chance to see some of the exhibits before the masses descend on the New York Hall of Science. “We want to make sure kids get here even if their parents don’t,” said MAKE founder Dale Dougherty. At Education Day kids got to play […]
Maker Faire New York: Tangible Lights
Tangible Lights is a childrens’ building set made from cylindrical pieces that light up and change colors when you stack them together. Each block is embedded with an LED powered by a coin cell that can produce 160 hours of playing time, and embedded magnets make them snap together easily.
Makey Awards 2012 Nominee 11, Intel, Education/Outreach
Intel has many charitable giving programs, but their “Intel Involved” Matching Grant Program (which awards employees’ volunteer hours at eligible organizations with matching funds) has had a special impact in the hackerspace community.
Makey Awards 2012 Nominee 09, NASA, Education
Among NASA’s nine legislative “prime directives” is “[t]he preservation of the role of the United States as a leader in aeronautical and space science and technology and in the application thereof to the conduct of peaceful activities within and outside the atmosphere.” This mandate has informed the agency’s fundamental role in public STEM education from the very beginning.
Hacker Scouts: Open Lab @ Ace Monster Toys
Hacker Scouts: Open Lab @ Ace Monster Toys. Ace Monster Toys presents Hacker Scouts Got a Maker kind of kid? Traditional kind of scouting not a good fit? Want to Build community with other maker families? Hacker Scouts is a new program designed to acquire new skills, reinforce knowledge, provide mentoring, and build community. Join […]
Lessons Learned from a Pop-Up Makerspace for Kids
Over the last two weeks a founding team of makers and educators affiliated with HTINK, a New York based technology education cooperative, transformed an art gallery in Brooklyn, NY, into a pop-up makerspace for kids: The Makery. Aside from outfitting the space with tools like MakerBot Replicators, a vinyl cutter, soldering equipment, electronics, and fabrication […]
