I-Corps l: Leveraging Maker Pathways Research Projects to Scale Steam + Making Outreach Programs

制作是一个快速发展的主题领域，让学生和K-12教师从事STEAM（科学，技术，工程，艺术和数学），特别是工程。在这个团队对创客社区的研究中，团队见证了许多成人和青年创客创业的例子。教育工作者、家长和创客空间都对如何培养年轻人以应对技术复杂的未来感兴趣。父母经常送他们的孩子去夏令营或鼓励他们参加课外活动，可以提供技术技能。创客空间为其成员提供社区和工具。这个I-Corps团队相信，弥合差距将为最终用户、客户和市场提供价值。广泛的教育工作者可以从课程、项目、支持、市场营销和资助材料中受益，以实现他们的教育目标。这包括K-12教师、家庭教育家庭、科学中心、创客空间和大学教育工作者。这个I-Corps团队旨在利用其对成人和青少年创客教育途径的理解，为初中和高中学生建立连锁反应STEAM机器（TM）和制造+修补工程外展短期课程。该团队打算通过基于项目的实践学习，促进STEAM教育原则的广泛适应，并为教师和科学中心提供专业发展。团队设想了一个整体的解决方案，包括课程、项目、支持、营销和资金解决方案，以及可选产品，如材料和现场咨询。该团队的兴趣是成为一种催化剂，让学生们接触到发明、创新和创业心态。这是一个培养未来劳动力的机会，他们可以发明、构建和销售创新和有用的解决方案。

Making is fast growing topic area to get students and K-12 teachers engaged in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math), particularly engineering. In this team's research in the Maker Community, the team has witnessed many examples of Adult and Young Makers being entrepreneurial with what they have built. Educators, parents, and makerspaces are all interested in how to train young people for a technologically complex future. Parents often send their children to summer camps or encourage them to participate in after school activities which can provide technical skills. Makerspaces provide a community and tools to their members. This I-Corps team believes that bridging the gap will provide value to the end-users, customers, and market. A broad range of educators could benefit from curricula, projects, support, marketing, and funding materials for running their Making education goals. This includes K-12 teachers, homeschooling families, science centers, makerspaces, and university educators.This I-Corps team aims to leverage its understanding of adult and young Maker educational pathways to build chain-reaction STEAM Machines(TM) and Making+Tinkering engineering outreach short-courses for STEAM outreach with middle school and high school students. The team intends to facilitate a broad adaptation of STEAM education principles through hands on project-based learning and provide professional development for teachers and science centers. The team imagines a holistic solution that includes curricula, projects, support, marketing and funding solutions, and optional products such as materials and on-site consulting. The team's interest is in being a catalyst for Making becoming an experience by which students are exposed to invention, innovation and entrepreneurship mindsets. This is an opportunity to grow a future workforce who invents, builds and markets innovative and useful solutions.