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Round 2 - Let the Design Begins...

CONTEST TASKS:

TASK 1: Design a Makerspace for Your School 
TASK 2: Complete a Hands-On Maker Project Based on Students’ Interests or Community Needs

CONGRATULATIONS! Your team has advanced to Round 2

Instructions, Downloads, & Submittal Requirements: Round 2

• Study the must read articles and must watch videos (download below). We also have a list of recommended videos.
• Must-read Reading List:
  
  1. Makered.org Makerspace Playbook
  2. Design thinking for Libraries Toolkit at a glance by IDEO 
  3. Making a Makerspace Part 1: Planning the STEAMWORKS and Part 2: Building out the STEAMWORKS - Patrick Waters
• Must-view Video List:
  
  1. Neil Gershenfeld TED speech: Unleash your creativity in a Fab lab
     Neil Gershenfeld: Physicist, personal fab pioneer. As Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, Neil Gershenfeld started with leading his students to explore the boundaries between the digital and physical worlds. Later, he founded Fab Lab, a worldwide network of fabrication labs to unleash people's creativity in making“almost anything”.
  2. Cesar Harada TED speech: A novel idea for cleaning up oil spills  
     Cesar Harada: Inventor, environmentalist, educator. When Cesar Harada heard about the devastating effects of the BP Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, he quit his dream job and moved to New Orleans to develop a more efficient way to soak up the oil. He designed a highly maneuverable, flexible boat capable of cleaning large tracts quickly, and opted to open-source the design to facilitate other people to further develop based on it. The whole design process demonstrates the power of design thinking.
• Recommended Video List:
  
  • How to Create a Makerspace
    Aaron Newcomb of non-profit Benicia Makerspace talks with Leo Laporte about what it takes to start a Makerspace from equipment, resources, legal issues, to getting the community involved.
  • How the Maker Movement Connects Students to Engineering and Technology
    Eighth-grader Quin uses his passion for electronics to teach fellow students about 3D printing, arduinos, and other hands-on lessons in STEM skills.
  • Google Techtalks: The Maker Movement: Young Makers and Why They Matter
  • What is Making?
    Maker Educators in SSU Startup define what Making is in K-12 settings
  • Making as Aligned with 21st Century Learning and Common Core
    Melissa Becker, Maker Educator and principal of Meadow Elementary in Petaluma, California, discusses how making aligns with new standards and 21st century learning practices.
  • What makes Making Powerful?
    Maker Educator Aaron Vanderwerff discusses three important aspects of Making with students.
  • What is Making? Denver Style...
    Maker Faire is an annual festival to make, create, learn, invent, craft, hack, recycle, build, think, play and be inspired. Maker Faires are multi-generational gatherings sweeping across the country and around the world. And now coming to Denver! May 3rd and 4th 2014 at National Western Complex.
  • Creating a Making Space in the Classroom
    Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager, authors of Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom, discuss affordable ways to create a maker space in the classroom.
  • Who are makers?
    Who are 'makers' anyway? During our last visit to World Maker Faire, we spent some time talking with people who make ideas real; here's what they had to say about what makes a “maker."
• Discuss among the team how you should go about designing a makerspace at your school for task 1
• Discuss among the team how to survey the community and decide on a meaningful project for task 2
• Complete Questionnaire for Round 2 as a team - available for download after August 1, 2016

Participating Schools