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.
Results from last weekend’s Northeast Regional competition for the MATE ROV challenge were released the other day: 1st Overall-High Tech High School, Lincroft, NJ 2nd Overall-Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Cambridge, MA These teams will compete at the international competition in June against the regional winners from across the world. Marine Advanced Technology Education Center […]
Over on the PC World blogs, Phil Shapiro has penned a glowing piece about MAKE, entitled “Exit Newsweek – Enter MAKE Magazine,” on the news that Newsweek may be going the way of the dinosaur. The piece is filled with wonderful, flattering quotes about MAKE: If you haven’t seen this magazine yet, check out the […]
Members of the South Kingstown High School Robotics team explain the vehicle they made for the MATE ROV 2009 regional competition at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. If you were a participant on one of the teams in this year’s regional competitions, please add your photos to the MAKE Flickr pool, and if you could, please use […]
Alex has been using Scratch to teach problem solving and programming with kids. Here is the balancing cat.sb file. Here is Alex’s solution.sb . You will need a copy of the free program Scratch. Try it out, post your results on the Scratch site, and let us know what you think.
Here are some recent video clips from George Sanger and Jeri Ellsworth, aka The Fatman and Circuit Girl. In the first vid, Jeri attempts to build a Sprinthariscope, a tool for viewing radiation, using the radioactive Americium from a smoke detector. She also attempts to pronounce Sprinthariscope and Americium. All three attempts fail, but it […]
Moved to poetry by last weekend’s Maker Revolution, Jonathan penned this: Haiku on Maker Revolution: Seeing Legends Talk Sitting Round the Geek Camp Fire Watching People Make The Maker Revolution @ Microsoft Startup Labs from Boston Cyberarts on Vimeo. Bre had a spiffy time as well: We printed airplane wings, dodecahedrons, and chess pieces. Then […]
Image from the Library of Congress Check out the great photos from the 1930s-40s in Color set at the Library of Congress on Flickr. These vivid color photos from the Great Depression and World War II capture an era generally seen only in black-and-white. Photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and […]
