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Cardboard in the Wild – Marty Morales « Otherlab’s MENTOR News

On October 23rd, 2012 By Michelle Hlubinka
Read our colleague Danielle’s fun story of subway encounter in which she met a man using a model made of cardboard and foam to teach about back health. Cardboard in the Wild – Marty Morales « Otherlab’s MENTOR News.
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Learning Ideas: Cheap circuits and subsystems

On October 22nd, 2012 By Joel Rosenberg
This is the third post in a series about ideas for learning in a Makerspace. Learning Idea #3: Circuits made with cheap or reconfigurable components Electronics is a large part of Maker culture, but it can also be a very difficult subject to learn. The $5 Cracker Box Amplifier from MAKE magazine [...]
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Otherlab's post on FabLearn

Otherlab’s “Lessons from FabLearn”

On October 19th, 2012 By Michelle Hlubinka
Martine and Mike from Otherlab joined the FabLearn 2012 conference on Wednesday. We’ll be sharing some more of our own reflections on the event in a few days, but for now, take a peek about what our colleagues learned from the conference: http://blog.mentor.otherlab.com/fablearn-conference-summary/
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Spaces for learning about making in the Bay Area

On October 16th, 2012 By Michelle Hlubinka
Today’s post is written and photographed by Tiffany Tseng. Early this summer I joined my grad school advisor Mitchel Resnick and Tiffany, who is a current student in his research group. I was delighted to get to tag along for a few hours on an enviable itinerary as they visited [...]
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Building the chair project at Lighthouse

A Year at Lighthouse: from chairs to Arduinos to interactive chandeliers (and more)

On October 10th, 2012 By Aaron Vanderwerff
Editor’s note: Today’s post is written by teacher Aaron Vanderwerff, who started a Young Makers club at Lighthouse Community Charter School in Oakland, California, so that he could encourage his students to make things to exhibit at Maker Faire. Aaron is a Physics, Chemistry, and Robotics teacher at his [...]
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MENTOR Makerspace First Year Launch

On September 24th, 2012 By Michelle Hlubinka
A crowd assembles at the College of San Mateo for the Makerspace Launch The pilot high schools participating in the first year of MENTOR Makerspace program, funded by DARPA, were recognized at a launch event held at the College of San Mateo on Monday, September 10th. The event, organized by O’Reilly Media and [...]
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Mentoring Girls to Make: Lessons from Techbridge

On September 1st, 2012 By Michelle "Binka" Hlubinka
Today we share a post by Linda Kekelis of Techbridge. Techbridge role model, Lyn Gomes, experienced the joy of tinkering from her early maker experiences. Lacking her own tool kit, she would “borrow” her father’s eyeglass screwdrivers to repair the answering machine. This gave her the confidence to work with larger tools and take on projects [...]
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Learning Ideas: Math in action

On August 28th, 2012 By Joel Rosenberg
This is the second post in a series about ideas for learning in a Makerspace. Learning Idea #2: Show math in action and application. Math is really useful for making things. But using math in making is not so straightforward. Christian Schunn argues that while Math has become more application oriented, the rest of STEM [...]
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NYC Makery: A Pop-Up Makerspace for Kids

On August 14th, 2012 By Michelle "Binka" Hlubinka
Our friends at HTINK are working with a wide range of ages, as you can see–for those who haven’t figured out the right space yet, you may want to consider their mobile model.
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Learning Ideas: Making Classroom Equipment

On August 6th, 2012 By Joel Rosenberg
One of the sub-goals of Makerspace is to connect concrete projects to the more abstract worlds of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). Back in the 1950s/60s MIT physicist Jerrold Zacharias led the rewriting of the high school physics curriculum to reflect the structure of how physicists viewed it, and in the process got rid [...]
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