The Site of Rik Panganiban
I have been helping lead one of our teen project groups for the internship program at the Academy. Project groups are opportunities for our interns to work together on some longer term project or topic, supported by a staff person, over the course of a semester. My project group is called “Big History”, a group of five teens …
Okay, it took awhile to get out episode three of our podcast "Object Oriented," but we are pretty excited about this one. In this episode, Eve, Barry and tackle one of the most exciting new trends in museums and other learning institutions: the Maker Movement. I begin with the basic but complicated question of whether …
The cool folks at TechHive at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley have launched a crowdfunding campaign to expand their programs to reach 75 Bay Area teens this year. It's a really cool program that helps Bay Area teens become not just makers, but educators and science communicators in their communities. Head to their …
I haven't been in a Gap store for years. But I have to say that I'm loving this new Gap Kids "ED" line, Ellen Degeneres' new clothing line that celebrates girls doing lots of "non-girly" things. I love that this has actual kids who play drums, start businesses, dance, skate and make. For example, here's …
Here's a list of resources for making the case for maker education that I've found helpful for a variety of contexts. MakeEd Resource Library Making and Learning site list of references Are there others out there that folks know about?
Tonight I had the pleasure of visiting the amazing maker space at the software design company Autodesk on Pier 9, San Francisco. I was participating in a Bay Area Maker Educator meetup, along with 40 other teachers and education specialists from across the Bay. The invitation promised a visit to a maker lab that “we’ll all …