Have you started a STEM program at your school? In your district? Are you ready to show it off? Maybe you just want to get started with Making, Coding and Robotics. A Maker Faire can be any size and can be held anywhere. I talk about how to get started with Makers Ed, what I've been using, show examples including great resources.

1. “Making" Your Own Mini
Maker Faire October 27, 2014
Susan Wells, ISTE MLN PD Chair
& Founder of

2. What is a Maker Faire?
Celebrate…
• Arts
• Crafts
• Engineering
• Science projects
• Do-It-Yourself Projects
• Invention
• Creativity
• Resourcefulness

3. Consider learning objectives for
event...lesson…club…camp…
Students as creative thinkers and problem solvers
We tinker to learn
We make to learn
Approach a problem not to find the correct solution but to find
the whole of the problem
Collaborate, work as a team, share what you know, share your
thinking, share your challenges and successes
Design thinking
Math, science, invention, writing, and literacy with purpose and
authenticity

5. Find a Maker Faire-http://
makerfaire.com/map/
How to Make a Maker Faire-http://
makerfaire.com/mini/

6. Students collaborate
and plan projects

7. Camp “Mini Maker Faire”
Resources
Hands-on creating Found and recycled items, Heat gun &
foam, Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys, Legos, Duplos, Kapla Blocks,
3D Printer
Curate iMovie, LiveBinder
Share Twitter, Skype, Youtube, Edmodo
Augmented Reality/QR Codes i-Nigma & Aurasma
Micro processors Makey-Makey Arduino Boards, and Rasberry-
Pi
Robotics BirdBrain Technologies “Finch”, Lego Mindstorms , EZ-Robot

8. Robotics
“The Finch”, Birdbrain Technologies…stays tethered…$99
Lego “Mindstorms”
EZ-Robot, very affordable

9. Coding
Web-based and App-based
Introduce it and then watch your students take off
Amazing & powerful with fragile readers and ELL/ESL students
*Code.org
*Hour of Code
• Angry Birds & Flappy Birds
• Light Bot
• Tynker
• Kodable (free)
• Hopscotch (free)
• Daisy the Dinosaur (free)
• Cargo-bot (free)

10. • Honor individuals first then the process, student choice, student
direction…Quality takes time
• Bring in the community, so many out there to help, local
organizations, not-for-profits, museums, corporations, retired
business people, building supply
• Connect to Standards
• Communicate!

11. Items…
Design, Create, Think!

12. Questions? Thoughts? Ideas?
Susan Wells
@wellssusan
Email: wellssusan@gmail.com
Camp EdTechGreen
http://www.campedtechgreen.com/