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.
Everything we do at Beam is directed towards enabling campers and staff to make ideas happen. Our aim is help kids explore how the skill and process of making things can be applied to all of life, not just strictly objex of art. Making, for us, is where art, work, technology, utility, resource management, communication and collaboration intersect. We see making as a pathway to being intentional about how you live, who you are and what you bring to the world.
Over on the Hands-On – Make: Electronics blog, our new best friend, Jim Kelly, continues to blaze his way through the experiments in Make: Electronics. It’s really fun to watch someone learning out loud. In Chapter 2, Experiment 8, Jim learned an all-important lesson in electronics, the need to be persistent in troubleshooting a problem. […]
Inspired by George Hart’s work (our Math Mondays columnist), Flickr user fdecomite has been constructing these awesome geometric models out of playing cards, pencils, paper, and other materials. Fdecomite’s photo sets More: Math Monday: Playing card contructions
Teachers, need a topic for an upcoming class? Why not teach the cube? The You CAN Do The Rubik’s Cube program is designed to get the country’s youth engaged in math and science in a fun way! The Solution Guide and lesson plans have been designed to help educators engage youth in grades 3-12 and […]
Physical chemist Bartosz Grzybowski and colleagues at Northwestern University have created a microfluidic system that solves mazes like a lab rat. The system is very simple–besides the maze itself, there’s the dyed drop of acidic oil that actually traverses the maze, the basic hydroxide solution that fills the maze, and the acidic lump of agarose gel that marks the maze’s exit–but results in an apparently complex behavior. The droplet at right actually took a couple of wrong turns and back-tracked to correct them. [via Neatorama]
Twitter user ChristineMMTTM points us to this great video record of the process of building a remote control airplane that was built from junk that could be scavenged from most household trash.
Multiple readers have pointed out this recent news item concerning an 11-year old student in San Diego who became the center of a police investigation after bringing his homemade motion sensor to school. Quite frankly, I found it completely heartbreaking. Like all regrettable incidents, there were of course variables and circumstances at play which we […]
