How Rolling Robots Spark Engineering Education
Orbotix now offers discounted multi-Sphero packs for educators, and free tutorials and lesson plans.
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.
Tips for Makers: The Basics of Boothing
It’s not enough to just make something—it’s also important to be able to tell others about your project and why it is great. Collect photos, sketches, prototypes, failed pieces of your project: anything that tells the story of how and why your projects came to be. Maker Faire attendees love to know how and why […]
C Is For Capacitor: Adafruit Educates
When it comes to educating youngsters and beginners at to the functions and uses of electronic components, the material can be quite dry. Explaining amps versus volts to my 8-year-old son is much like getting me to read tax documentation. His eyes glaze over and I can see that my words are just kind of […]
Growing Grit: My 8th Grade Garduino Project
Making a self-maintained, Arduino-based garden helped with instilling “grit,” the trait of not giving up when you hit obstacles.
Making a Maker Campus
Often when maker communities become aware of one another they begin to collaborate. That’s a concept I’ve seen play out many times, most recently in San Diego after our Mini Maker Faire. Harnessing this insight and being deliberate with its development can lead to great things. This idea has led to the Making a Maker City symposium at MakerCon and Making a […]
What Are Your ABCs of Making?
Maker’s Alphabet is a wonderful new book being written by a talented pair of makers in New York.
Build This Model Arm and Explore Human Tinkering
What’s the best way to learn anatomy? Tinkering.