Raspberry Pi Offers Resources for Educators
Clive Beale from The Raspberry Pi Foundation spoke to Make: about its beginnings as an educational platform and how their audience at Maker Faire has evolved.
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.
Working Hands Project
I gave myself the mandate to “tell stories wherever hands, tools, and materials converge.”
A Hospital Mini Maker Faire
Let’s Make Health! That’s was the banner under which we all flew Wednesday, May 28th, 2014 at the Maimonides Medical Center Mini Maker Faire in Brooklyn. Fifty years ago, in that same hospital, Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz used modified electronic metronomes bought in Canal street to prototype the first implantable pacemakers. They hacked AM transistor […]
The Inside-Out Roller Coaster
As the footage began to roll, the bench bucked and kicked with each bump…
Down the Lazy Riveropolis
Riveropolis is a little like a very intricate game of Pooh Sticks.
Maker Ed: Making Possibilities for Educators
The Maker Education Initiative (Maker Ed) welcomed more than 100 educators to our first Making Possibilities Workshop, held Thursday, May 15 at Intel’s Santa Clara, Calif. Global Headquarters. In the spirit of making, we began the day with a full hour of tinkering and play. Attendees customized their badges, built and painted large cardboard creations, […]
Education Extravaganza at Maker Faire Bay Area 2014
At Maker Media, we like to re-invent things every once in a while, and so this year we tried a lot of new ways to reach out to teachers and schools ahead of Maker Faire. We launched a new Teacher Team, and you’ll see hundreds of teachers getting involved in new ways, and a few […]
