What does the future hold for American innovation? Ask someone who’s spent a little time in a makerspace, and you’re liable to get a very optimistic answer. Every day, new ideas are coming to fruition ...

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EdSource · California teachers on the picket line amid shrinking school budgets Educators are finding that the new “makerspace” movement – a strategy to teach K-12 students science, math and ...

The University of Delaware Maker Gym and Idea Network has taken a big step in its journey from vision to reality with the appointment this summer of its first faculty director, an associate director, ...

While conducting research for my recent graduate thesis to complete my Master's degree in Educational Technology from New Jersey City University, I uncovered the fact that the maker movement, a ...

The makerspace isn't just a fixed space where kids come and go to complete busywork. It's an extension of a well-established approach to educating students that has applications and deep implications ...

The bottom floor of the Open Works space in Baltimore is home to the makerspace’s metal, wood and digital fabrication shops. (The Daily Record/File Photo) A bill that aims to support the development ...

Two years ago I attended an edtech conference focused on the then up-and-coming trend of makerspaces. The opening keynote speaker ended his presentation with a charge for all in attendance: “I hope ...

Dale Dougherty, one of the Maker Movement’s biggest catalysts, dropped into Philadelphia last week to keynote the September Maker Meetup. But before the talk, Dougherty, who’s the founder of Make ...

Makerspaces – the commercial venues where creative people gather to design and make their products – are under pressure to transform their business models or face closing shop. A growing number of ...

Photos courtesy of Lipofskyphoto.com Dan Bower works at a 3D printer to make components of a plastic mask. In response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, makerspaces across the state have mobilized ...

Within the last decade the DIY movement has grown from projects in basements and garages to a collective movement of people gathering together in cities and across the country to something much larger ...