6 Strategies for Funding a Makerspace The Maker movement continues to gain momentum. At this year's White House Science Fair, President Obama invited Super-Awesome Sylvia from Auburn, California to exhibit her water color robot as a representative of the Maker community. At the same event, the Corporation for National Service announced its commitment to place Americorps VISTAs in Maker movement organizations across the country. Maker Ed is placing those Maker VISTAs in makerspaces to help build their capacity for engaging low-income students as makers. In this spirit, we are starting to see more and more makerspaces springing up in schools across the country. If you are a teacher experimenting with making projects in your classroom, here are some successful fundraising strategies we've seen educators use to fund a makerspace for their school community. 1. Finding a room is easier than you think. Likewise, high school math teacher Casey Shea walked his maker class off campus in Sebastopol, California. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
HYPE Makerspace | Detroit Public Library The HYPE Teen Center is a place where the passions of young adults are inspired through the spirit of invention, creativity, learning, and do-it-yourself (DIY) culture. The HYPE Makerspace within the HYPE Teen Center was created through a generous grant from the Cognizant – Making the Future initiative in April of 2012. Young adults work in groups with expert instructors during our weekly workshops. Once teens learn the basics of various skills, they are then allowed to go beyond the set curriculum and create new inventions and art of the teens’ vision. Detroit has always been home to inventors and visionaries, and the HYPE Teen Center serves to nurture the next generation of great Detroiters. HYPE provides a variety of Makerspace workshops. ElectronicsLearn the basics of how electronics work, and take control of the electronic world around you. Graphic Design Show your artistic side! Sewing/WearablesWork that fashion! Arduino RoboticsBuild your own robot army!
Services numériques en bibliothèques : 2 guides pour accompagner les publics Comment mettre en place des services numériques dans une bibliothèque ? Comment rendre accessibles des ressources électroniques pour les usagers en tenant compte de l’offre actuelle ? Comment greffer à ses ressources numériques, une médiation et un accompagnement à ces ressources pour les usagers ? Au Québec (Canada), BiblioPresto, organisme chapeautant le développement et l’accès aux ressources numériques en bibliothèques publiques, propose 2 guides en libre téléchargement, actualisés régulièrement pour répondre aux questions posées au début de cet article. Accompagner les publics en bibliothèques Avec ces 2 dossiers pratiques, pédagogie, innovation, créativité, esprit d’équipe et compétences numériques s’entrecroisent pour fournir un accompagnement aux ressources numériques auprès des publics, valoriser cette offre documentaire, la faire connaître et soutenir l’intérêt pour le catalogue/fonds numérique. Deux guides utiles Table des matières : Qu’est-ce qu’un livre numérique ?
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How to Start a Makerspace When You're Broke Everyone’s Favorite Excuse I’ve had the honor and privilege of sharing with hundreds of librarians and educators about our makerspace. Unfortunately, I see many educators hold back on starting a makerspace because of funds. I’m always hearing excuses like: “I’d love to do (insert cool Maker activity) at my school, but we don’t have a budget for that.”“We can’t really afford a 3D printer right now.” What many people don’t realize is that the idea that you need a lot of money to start a Makerspace is a myth. Share Your Vision with ALL THE PEOPLE You want to start a makerspace. Recycled materials can make for awesome projects Seek out Donations Never discount the value of donated materials. Consider putting out a bin for donations of recycled materials. We first started our makerspace with bins of K’nex found in a storage room Work with What You’ve Got Since you’ve started sharing your vision, you might have found out that your school already has some maker supplies lying around. Go Make Stuff :)
Open Lab Idaho - a community hackerspace and makerspace Kaizen Magazine The Creative License I am an author and creative director dividing my time between Los Angeles and New York. I am working on several projects with publishers and with clients while speaking at conferences and organizations here and in Europe. Before setting up this new bi-coastal life, I was Managing Director and Executive Creative Director of mcgarrybowen in New York. Before that, I was Chief Creative Officer of Doremus, which I helped to turn from a 100-year-old tombstone shop into the B-to-B and Corporate Agency of the Year serving clients from Corning to Goldman Sachs. I built my skills as a marketer and a writer at some of the best agencies in the industry including Ogilvy, Young & Rubicam, and Hal Riney. I am also an author and have written and illustrated seven best-selling books on art and creativity. After nine years of helping to build mcgarrybowen, I am curious to learn about new industries and new challenges.
Expect the Miraculous | Barrow Media Center Places The Places section will provide information about setting up, resourcing, and staffing physical makerspaces in a variety of community contexts. We are also organizing a directory of self-described Makerspaces. Makerspace will design and develop physical workspaces in a variety of community contexts that serve a diverse group of learners who do not all share the same resources. Resources Makerspace Playbook: intended to offer some guidance to those who are hoping to start a Makerspace at their school or in their community. High School Makerspace Tools & Materials: a companion document detailing the uses and costs of a fully stocked inventory for an in-school Makerspace.
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The Book Surgeon (15 pieces) Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed. Dettmer manipulates the pages and spines to form the shape of his sculptures. He also folds, bends, rolls, and stacks multiple books to create completely original sculptural forms. "My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its past creators and the completed pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception," he says. "The richness and depth of the book is universally respected yet often undiscovered as the monopoly of the form and relevance of the information fades over time. Dettmer is originally from Chicago, where he studied at Columbia College. Update: Read our exclusive interview with the Book Surgeon here. Brian Dettmer's website
The Daring Librarian Victory Branch Library Makeiteers Wanted! Ada Community Libraries are proud to be a part of a pilot project of the Idaho Commission for Libraries to create MakerSpaces in Idaho public libraries. We call it our Make IT space. To find out more about Make IT spaces in Idaho, please visit our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/MakeItIdaho. We are looking for some great people to help put on some Maker programs! Our indoor Make IT space is located on the lower level of the Victory Branch and is open and available for making any time when we aren't holding a library program in the space. Homeschool Makeiteers, Mondays, 1:30 p.m.Adult/Family Makeiteers, Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m.SMART (Science + Math + Art) Crafts , Thursdays, 4:30 p.m.3D Printing Club, Thursdays, 4:30 p.m.Minecrafters Club, Fridays, 4:00 p.m.Make IT Free Builds, Saturdays, 2:00 p.m.Family Make IT Day, Saturday, February 1, 1-3 p.m. Come spend some time in the Make IT space and let us know how it can be improved!