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Instilling a Maker Mindset on Campus: Case Studies

World Maker Faire 2016

October 1st-2nd

Presentation Education

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.

Schedule

Sun 2 Sun 2 October 2016
Center Stage - NYSCI Auditorium
1:00 pm
Full Schedule
Ian Roy Maker Picture

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 Maker Picture

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 Maker Picture

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 Maker Picture

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 Maker Picture

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

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