Replay | Supporting Innovation & Social Mobility through Maker Ecosystems

Maker-centered learning uniquely empowers students to explore and improve their world. It enables students to create by building, prototyping, coding, digitally fabricating and experimenting. It puts the student at the center of an interdisciplinary learning experience.

 Whether you’re just getting started or you’re on the way to growing your makerspace or maker-centered learning program, this interactive webinar provided with practical tips, tools and resources for you to incorporate into your efforts, like the resource guide from MakerUSA. 

In this webinar, we discussed the unique role that community colleges, technical colleges and minority-serving institutions can play in building stronger pathways for students into making-related careers and entrepreneurship. We heard from MakerUSA’s Colin Lacy and Dr. Stephanie Santoso as well as Matt Ratliff, Coordinator of Community Development Programs at Patrick & Henry Community College and Kimberly Hunter, Project Director at Mantles and Makers about successful models and best practices that leverage partnerships and community-driven programming in building local ecosystems to support student makers and maker entrepreneurs.