Here are the slides from my talk at MakerCon New York 2014, about the Business of Making with Kids (based on my experience at MakerKids). Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jotOIuwLXVg

1. The Business of
Making with Kids
Jennifer Turliuk
Co-Executive Director, MakerKids
@jenniferturliuk / @maker_kids
jenn@makerkids.ca

7. I never thought
I’d be able to
drill at age 3!

8. The Business of Making with Kids
● HR
● Space
● Programs
● Partnerships
● Curriculum
● Marketing
● Future
● Other Ideas

10. People come 1st. HR: Maker Culture

11. HR: MakerKids at Heart

12. HR: Youth teaching youth

13. HR: Youth teaching adults

14. Making Programs

15. Making Partnerships

17. Making Curriculum
Your Company?

18. Hands-on Makerspace

19. Digital Design Lab

20. “Our Space”

21. Marketing

22. Marketing

23. Marketing

24. Marketing

25. Marketing

26. Kids the next great inventors
Howl!

27. Kids the next great inventors

29. Kids the next great entrepreneurs

30. The Future: MakerKids
Toronto
(Bay Area)
(Your Location)

31. MakerSchools

32. MakerKids at Heart

33. Mini makers

34. OTHER COOL IDEAS

35. Denmark - Cohousing

36. HomeMaker - Oakland

37. Library Possibility Wall

38. Mini Makerspaces at Home

39. Making as Therapy

40. Want to start a makerspace for kids?

41. jenn@makerkids.ca