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.
Calling all Orange County makers. educators, and tinkerers. Join your fellow makers for a Meetup Thursday, Dec. 6 at 7pm featuring Dale Dougherty, founding editor and publisher of MAKE magazine and the co-creator of Maker Faire. This is a great opportunity to meet fellow makers to discuss what’s happening in maker and educational communities in Southern California.
In this week’s episode of Food Makers on Nov. 28 at 2pm PST/ 5pm EST, I’ll be talking to Pierre Beauchamp, a young entrepreneur who is making a name for himself in aquaponics. Watch the episode here on Google+.
I love Sugru’s Fixer’s Manifesto! A lot of these items we’ve seen before, in such manifestos as Mister Jalopy’s Owner’s Manifesto or the iFixit Repair Manifesto, Platform21’s Repair Mainfesto, as well as The Cult of Done. However, it’s always nice to see it restated! Interested in Sugru? You can find it in the Maker Shed.
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While MAKE hosted its first 3D printer meetup in Sebastopol last week, across town at Analy High School Project Make unveiled the Analy Community Makerspace, a new community makerspace at Analy High School. The facility is the new home for Project MAKE, a program aimed at reinventing the shop class with new tools for a new generation of makers and tinkers. The students at Analy are already making cool stuff. Check out this video student Miles Pepper produced about the brand new facility.
A mere 11% of engineers in the U.S. are women, but Stanford engineer and product designer Debbie Sterling is doing her part to increase that percentage by getting young girls interested in building and problem solving though her interactive toy called GoldieBlox. Often, toy companies will take construction sets, like Lincoln Logs, and simply make […]
If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area this weekend and want to get your learning on, check out the robust class offerings of Workshop Weekend and meet like-minded makers. From their site: Workshop Weekend is a community-based two-day event that brings together dozens of short, hands-on workshops across a variety of disciplines, from crafting […]
