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

制造是快速增长的主题领域，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。在这个团队在Maker社区的研究中，团队见证了许多成人和青年Maker利用他们所建立的东西成为企业家的例子。教育工作者、家长和创业者都对如何为技术复杂的未来培养年轻人感兴趣。父母经常送他们的孩子去夏令营，或者鼓励他们参加课外活动，这些活动可以提供技术技能。创客空间为其成员提供了一个社区和工具。I-Corps团队相信，缩小差距将为最终用户、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、营销和资助材料中受益，以运行他们的制造教育目标。这个i-Corps团队旨在利用其对成人和年轻制造商教育途径的理解来构建链式反应蒸汽机(TM)，并为初中生和高中生提供修补工程推广短期课程。该团队打算通过动手进行基于项目的学习来促进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。该团队设想了一个整体解决方案，其中包括课程、项目、支持、营销和融资解决方案，以及可选产品，如材料和现场咨询。该团队的兴趣在于成为一种催化剂，使其成为学生接触发明、创新和创业思维的一种体验。这是一个机会，可以培养一支发明、构建和营销创新和有用的解决方案的未来劳动力队伍。

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.