Did you know that 1,000 high schools across the country will open “Makerspaces” in the next four years? If you don’t know what that is, check out Lasers, 3-D Printers, And Robots: The New Shop Class.
The project, an offshoot of O’Reilly Media’s popular Maker Faires and co-sponsored by a grant from DARPA, is described as “sort of a mashup of a shop class, a computer lab, an art class, and maybe a bio lab.” The project’s goal is to get more kids more interested in STEM fields by giving them more opportunities to get their hands dirty.
Do you have a Makerspace in your school?
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