This document provides inspiration and encouragement for creative thinking and innovation. It discusses developing a "maker mindset" and refusing to wait for instructions. It encourages asking what problems need solutions and just starting projects without overthinking. The document advocates for initiating ideas and taking risks to make something different, innovative, or "awesomesauce" despite potential doubts or failures along the way. The overall message is to ignite creative confidence and refuse to wait to create or make something.

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3. M A K E R S PA C E C U LT U R E A N D
M I N D S E T
A R E Y O U R E A D Y ?

4. N O T H O W T O D O
S C H O O L B E T T E R ,
B U T D I F F E R E N T .
W E S H O U L D B E A S K I N G

5. L E A R N I N G ?
W H A T D O W E M E A N B Y

7. C R E AT I V E
C O N F I D E N C E
Creative Confidence
is a way of
“experiencing the
world that generates
new approaches and
solutions.”

8. S E T H G O D I N
Your job isn't to CATCH UP
to the status quo;
the job is to CREATE and BE
the
status quo.

9. D O N O T WA I T F O R
I N S T R U C T I O N S

10. "Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no
publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling
you what you couldn’t do. If you lived in that world,
what would you do? Go. Do That."

11. B A S E D O N I D E A S O F G A RY VAY N E R C H U K
Live in the white space of now! Today!
NOW

12. B E H O N E S T !

13. R E F U S E D T O P U T
A C R E D I T C A R D
I N T O A M A C H I N E
1 5 Y E A R S A G O ?
H O W M A N Y O F Y O U

15. H O W M A N Y O F Y O U H AV E S E N T A N
E M O J I ?
Y E T… … .

16. W H Y I S T H I S
I M P O R TA N T ?

19. P R O B L E M W I T H S C H O O L S
• Developing these mindsets are not in the “curriculum”
• How much time do we challenge students to initiate?
• Schools are programmed
• jazz band song selections
• athletic plays
• school projects

24. MY STORY
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33. C O F F E E C H U G C A F E
I A M A M A K E R

34. S T E M A N D
E N G I N E E R I N G
I T I S M O R E T H A N J U S T

35. If MAKERSPACES
are so powerful,
then why are they
only in isolation?

37. Technological change is not
addi/ve; it is ecological,
which means, it changes
everything.
Neil Postman

39. What is your WOW?

40. What is your WOW?

41. Paint Your Masterpiece
VISION

48. You need to have the GUTS and
HEART and the PASSION to MAKE!

49. I N G R E D I E N T S
•an idea
•people to work
with you
•a place to work
•materials
•money

50. - S E T H G O D I N
What would our world
look like if more people
started projects, made a
ruckus, and took risks?

51. S TA RT
N O W

52. L E T ’ S L I G H T A
F I R E . . . S H A L L
W E ?

54. W H E R E D O
G O O D I D E A S
C O M E F R O M ?

55. 3 E A S Y S T E P S
Here’s how:
1. Don’t think about it.
2. Just start.
3. Keep starting.

56. W I L L I A M FA U L K N E R
Don’t bother just to
be better than your
contemporaries or
predecessors. Try to be
better than yourself.

57. T H E B I G G E S T O B S TA C L E T O O V E R C O M E WA S M Y S E L F.
G R E T C H E N R U B I N

58. Change your
PERCEPTION?

60. Why will I be successful in this class even if
I've never been successful before?

61. http://www.flickr.com/photos/44551921@N04/6240707542/
If students had a choice to go to your
classroom, would you have an empty
room?

63. Make it HAPPEN NOW!

64. - S K I L L S H A R E M A N I F E S T O
“Education is what someone tells you to do.
Learning is what you do for yourself.”

65. D O N O T A S K
“ W H A T W I L L
I I N N O VA T E
T O D A Y ? ”

66. A S K
W H A T
P R O B L E M I N
T H E W O R L D
N E E D S A
S O L U T I O N ?

68. N O O N E S AY S “ G O ”
A L L I D E A S A R E WA S T E D I F

70. When you do THIS, what
happens?
When you do THAT, what
happens?

71. K E V I N A S H T O N
“The encouraging part is that everyone can create.
The challenging part is that there is no magic
moment of creation. Creators spend almost all
their time creating, persevering despite doubt,
failure, ridicule, and rejection until they succeed in
making something new and useful. There are no
tricks, shortcuts, or get creative quick schemes.
The process is ordinary, even if the outcome is not.
Creating is not magic but work.

72. W H AT W I L L Y O U M A K E T O D AY ?
Most of our world is made of innovations inherited
from people long forgotten—not people who were
rare but people who were common.

73. MAKE It a Great Day

74. MAKE something DIFFERENT

75. MAKE something INNOVATIVE

76. MAKE something AWESOMESAUCE

78. Don’t You Dare

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