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.

Gadgeteer Testing Notes

Gadgeteer Testing Notes

Recently, I had an opportunity to get early access to a new hardware system from Microsoft. Gadgeteer is a way for people to rapidly build devices, program them and then even build enclosures around the projects they make. On Wednesday morning, almost none of my students had ever written a computer program, and by Friday afternoon, every one had the opportunity to write a program that would control output hardware based on the input of sensors that they had built.

Tin Cans + Bucket of Sand = New Science

Tin Cans + Bucket of Sand = New Science

If you take two empty cans, one closed on the bottom and the other open (i.e. a tube), and turn them upside down, which will be harder to push into a bucket of sand? If, reasoning by analogy to liquids, you (like most people), said the closed one…well, you can sort of guess where this is heading: A closed can is, in fact, easier to push into a bed of sand than an open tube. Given the usual fine print. Adrian Cho explains over at ScienceNOW:

Attack of the Cardboard Robo-Nauts!

Attack of the Cardboard Robo-Nauts!

Dale Dougherty tweeted this pic of a giant cardboard robo-naut bounding around at the Open MAKE/Young Makers Program at the Exploratorium today. This month’s theme was, you guessed it, cardboard. Next month is metal/wire. The Open MAKE event is held the third Saturday of every month. The next one is March 19, 2011, 10am-2pm. More […]

Reminder: Open MAKE — Makers, Kids, and Cardboard — tomorrow at the Exploratorium

Reminder: Open MAKE — Makers, Kids, and Cardboard — tomorrow at the Exploratorium

This month’s Open MAKE/Young Makers program is tomorrow, Saturday, Feb 19, at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. The theme is cardboard. Featured makers will be interviewed by MAKE’s Dale Dougherty in the McBean Theater between 1 and 2pm. Makers this month: The Cardboard Institute of Technology has been building a large installation in the Tinkering […]