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.
There are a wealth of websites that assist and promote outside the classroom Photo: PA We’ve been having quite a day. First Dale’s excellent TED talk hit the TED site, then we read Mark Sigal’s blog piece about the future of trade shows (where he cites Maker Faire as an example of the future of […]
Incredible story as we reach the 25th year since the Challenger explosion… The boy walked to the counter of the Lake City Public Library through a gantlet of stares in 1959. Ronald E. McNair, then 9, wanted to check out books on advanced science and calculus, but the librarian wouldn’t release them. “We don’t circulate […]
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics For a true maker, any stock of unused office supplies is perceived as a challenge to make some kind of construction. Here is an icosahedrally symmetric geodesic sphere made from ninety paper fasteners. It was built by Rolando Pontalti of Trento, Italy, who also made last week’s […]
Without further delay, here are the winners of the Make: Electronics book drawing: >> NikonErik >> EvilGenius121 >> driph >> xrazorwirex >> Idlewood Congrats. All of you: email me your mailing address. We’re thrilled by the response we got to the giveaway, 166 comments! And not only did people ask great questions, other readers pitched […]
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics Here is a geometric assembly challenge which you can try to make with wooden dowels or any other conveniently long cylinders. Each of these thirty aluminum rods touches ten others. The construction is rather tricky to accomplish even if you properly understand it as a compound of […]
If you’re looking for a way to fill up some of your after school time in the next few months, check out Google Science Fair. Gather up a friend or two and set out to explore science and making while creating an online record of your project and process. You’ll be competing against teens worldwide, but hey, the prizes look worthwhile.
Aged out of the competition? You can help out a team of youth as a teacher or mentor.
There Are No Electrons: Electronics for Earthlings Kenn Amdahl Clearwater Publishing, 1991, $12.95 As an obsessively visual person (and someone who suffers from dyslexia), I have a hard time understanding concepts that aren’t graphical or story-driven in nature. Give me a spreadsheet of statistics on something or a math formula and I’ll tilt my head […]
