This Weekend: The Crucible Opens its Molten Self to the Public
Check out an Open House for the Bay Area’s coolest metal shop and teaching space.
Makerspaces
Funding School Makerspaces
Your Makerspace may not need much of a budget to operate, if you have a space you can use for free, tools to borrow, and materials found or donated. For some Makerspaces, the ones with lots of parental involvement, many of the projects are self-funded. But if your Makerspace takes place at a school without as much family support, or if you simply do not have this all in place, you may need to research community or family foundation grants to fill in the gap.
Safety in School Makerspaces
As part of our Back-to-School series, we are sharing chapters and excerpts from the Makerspace Playbook: School Edition. Today, Chapter 4, Safety. No matter how you equip your school Makerspace, it’s likely that if you are doing anything interesting with your students or members there are some risks involved. Be sure to emphasize safety to […]
Look it up: Hackerspace and Internet of Things
Amongst other new words joining the Oxford Dictionaries Online this month are the words hackerspace and Internet of things.
3 Key Qualities for a School Makerspace
The blend of people, process, and place that makes a school makerspace successful.
Hackerspace Happenings
Are you a hackerspace member? We want to know about cool projects you are working on, or have completed, tools you’re using, fun stories about your space and its members, best practices you’d like to share with other spaces, and so on.
Hackathon at Hasbro HQ in Pawtucket, RI: Aug. 17-18
AngelHack and Hasbro have teamed up for the Hasbro-a-thon hackathon on August 17-18 in Pawtucket, RI. The event will be held at Hasbro’s headquarters, and there will be Nerf Blasters to play with. I’m one of the judges at this event, and I hope to see you there!
