Instilling a Maker Mindset on Campus: Case Studies
World Maker Faire 2016
October 1st-2nd
Higher ed makerspace founders from Brandeis, Colgate, UCONN, and Wellesley convene to discuss the challenges and victories that each campus has encountered while supporting emerging technology and encouraging students to embrace it.
Ian Roy
Assistant Director for Research Technology and Innovation at Brandeis University - Founding Head of Brandeis MakerLab - Staff Advisor to Brandeis 3D Printing Club - Staff advisor to Brandeis VR club - Hardware Advisor to BITMAP - Brandeis Class of '05 - Technology Evangelist - Drone Crasher - Diamond Photographer -Iai (居合) Shodan- Retired Ski Coach - Expert Button Pusher & Survivor
https://members.educause.edu/ian-roy
Jordan Tynes
Jordan Tynes is Manager of Scholarly Innovations at Wellesley College. He works across campus to develop interdisciplinary workflows and methodologies for many aspects of the higher education experience. Jordan often works with cutting-edge technologies to enable previously unfound ways of teaching, learning, conducting research, and communicating scholarly efforts.
http://members.educause.edu/tynesj
Douglas Higgins
Douglas Higgins is an Instructional Technologist at Colgate University. He received a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from University at Buffalo, and a Masters of Science in Adolescence Education from Utica College.
https://members.educause.edu/douglas-higgins
Adam Wentworth
Lab manager for Materials Science & Engineering, staff advisor to Uconn 3d printing club, class of 09
http://www.facebook.com/uconn3dpc
Sabrina Merlo
Sabrina is the Maker Faire Program Director. She runs Maker Faire's world-wide Maker Faire Network on locally and independently produced Maker Faires. She also works on content for flagship Maker Faires, co-creates the East Bay Mini Maker Faire in her town, Oakland, CA, and recently has been involved in founding a new maker association, Women Who Make.
https://makerfaire.com
