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.

Math Mondays Goes to Bridges

Math Mondays Goes to Bridges

Last weekend, the Math Mondays crew traveled to Enschede, The Netherlands, to attend the annual Bridges conference. If you’re a serious math maker and don’t know about Bridges, you should. It’s a meeting that draws 200-400 people, all focused on the connections between mathematics and art, and the folks there create some seriously amazing objects that are often stunningly beautiful and which subsume often deep and surprising mathematical themes. Over the next several weeks Math Mondays will present a travelogue of sorts of the incredible objects — and people — you can encounter at Bridges.

Basic Self-Reliance/Maker Curriculum for Kids

Basic Self-Reliance/Maker Curriculum for Kids

My dad and I were both Scouts, and I’d always assumed my sons and daughters would spend some time in one of these institutions to get the baseline skills they needed to be able to be fully functioning human beings. I began to wonder if the Scouts were still around in the same way I remembered them, and began to make my own “Maker curriculum” for my kids, in case we didn’t have access to the Scouts for some reason.

Comstock Maker Camp 2013

Comstock Maker Camp 2013

For three weeks in June and early July, Comstock Maker Camp was offered to approximately 80 middle-school students in Santa Rosa, Calif. Funded and supported by the Nancy C. and Dale Dougherty Foundation and the Boys & Girls Club of Central Sonoma County, the camp also partnered directly with Santa Rosa City Schools. This was its second summer, and if the showcase was any evidence, it was a resounding success!