Category: Blog
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Learning Labs Put 3D Printing Skills to the Test to Improve Lives for Veterans in Virginia
When you think of a team that has won $20,000 in a Make-a-thon for prosthetics and assistive technology, you wouldn’t expect that the team consisted of three teens, an educator, and an engineer. You also wouldn’t expect that they would immediately release their ideas as an open-source project, enabling doctors, researchers, and industrial designers to…
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Becoming a Valued Resource in a Large Library System
By Goda Trakumaite of Maker Jawn @ Free Library of Philadelphia Maker Jawn takes place in just 5 of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s 54 sites. How can a small-scale program within a large institution be viewed as valuable resource for the whole library system? How can we effectively share our resources and skills through…
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In San Francisco, Teens Design a Living Room for High-Tech Learning at the Public Library
When teens enter The Mix at the San Francisco Public Library, 19-year-old Dayra Banales is quick to step up and offer a tour, walking visitors past a row of new computers and through studios filled with video and audio equipment. She knows just about every inch of the space—after all, she helped design it. The…
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Making the Case for a Makeathon
TechHive is the YOUmedia Learning Lab based out of the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, California. During the last weekend in May, TechHive’s staff and teen interns collaborated to plan, develop, raise funds for, and run a Makeathon. The idea for this event came from a shared desire to experiment with an alternative to…
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Miami Teens #ShareTheLove With Nonviolence Campaign and Concert
Seventeen-year-old Arbie Nickerson has a packed schedule. On top of producing music, working at a preschool, and finishing his sophomore year of high school, he also produces his own weekly radio show through an online platform called Spreaker. But Nickerson took on another challenge last fall, when he joined a group of teens from YOUmedia…