Week 9: Maker Movement + Innovation

I have always been a fan of the Maker Movement. From a young age, my favorite experiences all involved me actively engaging with a topic– building with legos, creating with paints and scrap materials found around the house. A project that I am currently working on is similar to many referenced in the Peppler and Bender article. Specifically, my design team hopes to inspire low income middle students to enter STEM by scaffolding the process with art.

One major challenge my team faced was that these students don’t  follow the “do it yourself” or “do it with others” mindset. Is it possible to inspire this mindset? To what extent?