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.
OK, so, maybe it’s a bit crotchety for Friday morning, and I’m doubtlessly preaching to the choir in this forum, but it’s hard not to cheer along with Mike Rowe’s Wednesday testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Public Libraries, 3D Printing, FabLabs and Hackerspaces, Thomas writes in… We do not share the malaise of many librarians who worry that the Internet and e-books are going to make public libraries obsolete. On the contrary, these shifts liberate libraries to spend more of their resources on their essential purpose within a democracy. A public […]
Maker Faire is a powerful resource for educators, providing a 2-day endlessly inspiring, hands-on experience where anything is possible. Teachers can and have organized groups of students to attend the Faire together, as well as gleaned countless ideas for ways to make learning fun and bring science and tech to life. Maker Faire Bay Area […]
Our pals at iFixit have scored a pretty sweet scoop with this photo-dissection of the guts of an official FBI bumper-beeper.
Food month could not have come at a better time. Spring has us wanting to…um… make delectable dishes to fill our bellies, without ballooning our waistlines. Over the years, CRAFT has been putting together a series of essential tips to jump-start smart cooking habits. Among other things, you’ll learn steps to keep yourself and your […]
In point of fact, I have some empathy for the makers of this Chemistry 60 educational laboratory kit. They are, after all, just responding to the demands of the market, and we at MAKE actually have some first-hand experience of how hard it is, these days, to manufacture, market, and/or distribute chemistry sets that don’t, for lack of a better word, suck. So I post this not so much in the spirit of “shame on such-and-so” for creating this astounding oxymoron of a product, but rather to lament the general state of affairs we have come to thanks to litigiousness, chemophobia, and flagging scientific literacy. There has got to be a way back. [via C&E News]
It starts with the Big Bang, re-creates the extinction of the dinosaurs, holds a jousting competition, flips over an album, and simulates World War II, a shuttle launch, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and even the alleged apocalypse in 2012. In its precisely executed review of history, “The Time Machine,” a Rube Goldberg contraption built by members of the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers and Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, incorporates a record-breaking 244 steps—all to water a single flower.
