Instilling a Maker Mindset on Campus: Case Studies and projects from the student perspective
World Maker Faire 2017
MAKERS
Ian Roy
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
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.
Tim Henning
Tim Henning is a UCONN undergraduate studying Engineering. Tim runs the 3D Printing club at UCONN and has participated in many design contests and Hackathons.
Aubrey Simonson
Aubrey enjoys finding new and more immersive ways to digitize physical spaces and objects. Some of their recent projects have included digitizing an antique human skeleton using photogrammetry, and 3D modeling the train car from Anna Karenina from an old schematic, in order allow students to experience highlights of the book in virtual reality.
Steven Tarr
Steven is an undergraduate at Brandeis studying Physics. He has worked at MakerDepot and the Brandeis MakerLab. He is currently working on a project to build a model that simulates fresh water lensing in atoll islands.
Kaylie Cox
Kaylie is an undergraduate at Wellesley College interested in finding ways to merge humanities with technology. As a Classics major and Knapp Media and Technology Intern, Kaylie has been involved with digitizing an archaeological site in Greece and the artifacts discovered there, as well as helping to turn the site into a 3D model and virtual reality setting.
Schedule:
Saturday, September 23
Zone 3 - MAKE: Education3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
Higher ed makerspace Student Leaders from Brandeis, UCONN, Wellesley and Colgate will convene to discuss the Projects, challenges and victories that each MakerSpace has encountered while supporting emerging technology and encouraging students to embrace it from a variety of disciplines.
What inspired you to begin investigating your topic or inspired you to make your project?:
Having a not-so-goo or rather not-greatly-coordinated panel last year using entirely full time staff - I think it would go much better if we had a panel of undergraduate students (1 from each institution) being moderated by 2 staff (1 from Brandeis, 1 from Wellesley).
We have all these great questions we didn't address last year - and many more we will work with the students to focus around by the event:
What is your local technology culture like on campus?
How did you bootstrap community interest in investing in Maker/Emerging Technologies?
What toolsets do you support? What can people do in the room?
How do you train students effectively and efficiently?
How do you keep equipment maintained?
What is your room access model?
What makes the room specially adapted to your local campus environment?
What parts of the campus population do you support? Undergraduates? Grad students? Staff? Professors?
What disciplines / fields of study do you work with most?
What are your most interesting / cross disciplinary / impactful projects so far?
What was your biggest hurdle in getting a MakerSpace started on campus?
How do you fund your space? Does it cost anything to make stuff? What is your chargeback model?
Do you do outreach or events beyond your campus community?
How many students can you accomodate & how do you increase your reach?
What are you most proud of that your MakerSpace has accomplished?
What does “being a Maker” mean to you?
