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.
ur Maker Training Camps are collaborative online courses designed to help makers learn a new skill or build a specific project. Our June cohort (the very first one) attracted students from around the world, including Singapore, the Netherlands and the US. Over the next few days, we’re going to describe some of the projects that students madeโฆ
Our Maker Training Camps are collaborative online courses designed to help makers learn a new skill or build a specific project.
M2 Bootcamp is designed to โreconnectโ you with your inner Rosie the Riveter through discussions, worksheets/journal prompts, and projects straight from the MakerShed. This 3 week course of projects with the theme of โConnectingโ will take students on a incremental journey through painted circuits, soldering, and a final wearable keepsake.
Sarah Hodsdon is teaching our new Training Camp: Making for Moms.ย When she isn’t making Supermoms, Sarah is an internationally recognized Mixed Media Artist, award winning Designer, Inventor, Media Personality, Author and Instructor. ย Sarah has had the honor of being awarded Craft and Hobby Association’s Best in Show for License and Design and multiple Golden […]
Today we look at two responses to previous Math Monday installments on arrangements of great circles.
New for Maker Camp this year is our maker affiliate program. Campers can seek out Maker Camp affiliate sites in their local communities (libraries, makerspaces, schools, museums) where they can join their peers and participate in Maker Camp at a physical location. MAKE will provide a โplaybookโ with suggested curriculum by week, special events, and materials list to complete the recommended projects. Affiliates also get other freebies like posters, postcards, t-shirts, stickers, and buttons. The Maker Camp website will include a mapping tool to help campers find local affiliates in their community.
Math Mondays has been accumulating a lot of mail from all you fellow makers out there with a mathematical bent so today’s installment marks the beginning of a series (the length of which depends on how much more mail you all send) based on readers’ responses to earlier columns
